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This article presents a biography of author W. E. B. Du Bois. Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Alfred Du Bois, of French Huguenot and African descent, and Mary Sylvia Burghardt Du Bois, of Dutch and African descent. In 1896, his dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638-1870, was published. From 1897 to 1910, he served as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University, where he organizes the university's annual conferences for the study of "African American problems" and edits their proceedings. In 1902, he published The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most insightful and influential books ever written about African Americans. |
