William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Parents were Alfred Du Bois and Mary Burghardt. When Du Bois was 4 months old his father left to New Milford, Connecticut. He said that he come back. But Mary and William never saw or heard of him again . Du Bois’s childhood was free of strife. Mary and William lived with Grandfather Burghardt for almost five years . Grandfather died in 1873. Du Bois started school in 1874. Du Bois was an excellent student . Racial prejudice slowly entered his life. One day was playing with calling cards. Gave calling card to white girl and she rejected it. That rejection increased his desire to succeed.

While Du Bois was growing up his mother suffered a paralytic stroke. That left her lame in one leg and a crippled left arm . Mother was not able to work a lot. To make money Du Bois delivered groceries, and a lot of other stuff. Du Bois went Great Barrin

Won Mathews Scholarship in 1889, won second place in Boylston Prize for oratory . Joined Philosophical Cub and Foxcraft . His off campus was an activist. In June 1890 graduated from Harvard. He met Maud Cuney they became engaged but never married. He spoke out at his graduation, he got a good response. The American Historical Association invited Du Bois to deliver a speech in a meeting in Washington D.C. The speech was called thrilling . Applied for a grant from John F. Slater Fund for Negro Education . Du Bois wanted to go to foreign university. Wrote to Rutherford B. Hayes about the grant, letter went unanswered. Sent two more applications to Hayes, on May 1891 Hayes responded to the letter. Also mailed recommendations to Hayes, in April 1892 Slater Fund gave Du Bois gave him $750.

Published another novel The Ordeal of Mansart. State Department asked him to testify failed to respond. With his refusal to talk the government they took his passports. To most Africans Du Bois was “the father of Pan-Africanism”. One year later they got their passports. They stayed in the Soviet Union for five months. Received an honoree decorate from Moscow and the Lenin Peace Prize, the nations highest honor. Traveled to the Peoples Republic of China for 10 weeks. Returned to the United States in 1959, government took away there passports. The president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah asked Du Bois to move to Ghana and start an Encyclopedia Africans . That same year daughter Yolande died of a heart attack. Moved to Accra capital of Ghana.

Returned to New York in 1950, then the American Labor party asked to be a candidate for the US Senate in the November election. Had more than 200,000 votes but still lost the election . The Federal Government indicted the Peace Information Center for failing to register an agent of the Soviet Union. The trial began on November 8, 1951 in Washington, D.C. The Department of Justice pursued the case but became clear that prosecution had no proof that it was connected by the Peace Information Center and the Soviet Union . In 1952 married Shirley Graham his long time aid .

Two years later, formed a club called the Sons of Freedom . Club dedicated to the advancement of the colored race . Members to attend lectures and study American history and take part in debates . Du Bois soon graduated in 1884 . Dubois goal was to go to college, mainly Harvard University . Spent one year working on studies, didn’t have enough to money to go to college yet. Principal raised enough money for Du Bois to go to Fisk University. Just before he was about to go college, his mother Mary died.

Returned to Great Barrington, Massachusetts went looking for a job. Mailed letters to Howard, Fisk, and Tuskegee for jobs, a couple months later Wilberforce University offered Du Bois job. He taught German, English, Latin, and Greek . Got paid $1800 a year. In 1895, desertion was accepted by Harvard got his PhD in philosophy . He also worked on doctorial called The Suppression of the American Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 booked received

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