1. W.E.B Du Bois 1868 -1963

2. The man A Poet, Politician, an Activist, a Diplomat, a Freedom fighter, Organizer, Writer and a renowned Scholar

3. Early Life Feb 23,1868 Barrington, Massachusetts 1884 Valediction High School Fisk University, Nashville, TN - Encountered Jim Crow laws Married Nina Gomer and had 2 Children

4. Slater Fund Fellowship – University of Berlin First African American to graduate from Harvard with Doctorate “The suppression of the African Slave trade to the United States of American 1638-1870” Published as No. 1 in the Harvard Historical Studies series

5. Teaching Career Professor of Latin & Greek – Wilberforse University, OH Instructor of Sociology in University of Pennsylvania Professor of Economics & History Atlanta University

6. Leadership Co-founder of NAACP, 1909 Organized first Conference of Negro Land Grant Colleges Co-chairman of Council of African Affairs Member of Pan African Congress Runs for U.S Senate –Progressive Party in New York, 1950.

7. His Major Works The Soul of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches The Negro Dark water

8. Dark Prince Black Reconstruction in America Dusk at Dawn

9. Criticism Booker T. Washington criticized him for advocating - fight for equal rights - Insisting on Civil, Social & Political equality of African Americans

10. At the End of his Life Working on Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora Becomes a Ghana Citizen Died on August 27, 1963 on eve of I have a dream Speech