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W.E.B.DuBois Born on February 23, 1868 to Mary Silvina and Alfred Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was raised in a small but long established Black community in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. An avid student, Du Bois was published in the community's newspaper by the age of fourteen. He graduated from high school early and enrolled at Fisk University. Upon receiving his bacccalaureate degree, Du Bois accepted a scholarship at the University of Berlin, where he studied for two years. Following this, he went to Harvard, where he received his doctoral degree, being the first African American to do so. His dissertation, approved in 1895, was published as The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. Regarded as a masterpiece of historiography, this work remains an outstanding example of Du Bois' scholarship. (click for complete Bio)
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