Spotlight: One of the founders of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois was born on this date in 1868. Du Bois was an academic and a writer whose books include The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Color and Democracy (1945). The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University (1895), Du Bois's strongly held belief in equality for blacks eventually caused him to advocate for black separatism. He lived the last two years of his life in Ghana, where he became a naturalized citizen a short time before he died in 1963. (February is Black History Month in the US.)
Quote:"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life." – W.E.B. Du Bois
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Spotlight: One of the founders of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois was born on this date in 1868. Du Bois was an academic and a writer whose books include The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Color and Democracy (1945). The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University (1895), Du Bois's strongly held belief in equality for blacks eventually caused him to advocate for black separatism. He lived the last two years of his life in Ghana, where he became a naturalized citizen a short time before he died in 1963. (February is Black History Month in the US.)
