Person of the Week: W.E.B. Du Bois

The Person of the Week this week is William Edward Burghardt Du Bois,  also known as W.E.B. Du Bois. W.E.B. was the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard University and he went on to establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Although he died in 1963, his work helped shaped the American Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed racial and gender segregation and discrimination.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
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