1. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois AKA W.E.B. DuBois Born February 23 in Great Barrington,Massachusetts Died August 27,1963 in Accra Ghana 1868-1963 In highschool he showed a bright concern for his race. At 15 he became the local correspondent for the New York Globe. He wanted to go to Harvard but lacked money, but with the help of family and friends he managed to get a scholarship to Fisk university.

3. Education Graduated from Fisk University(Nashville) in 1888. Received a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1895. Doctoral dissertation The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America was published in 1896 Trained in social sciences and a professor at Atlanta Univeristy His most famous book The Souls of Black Folk He was the director of The Niagra Movement, and editor of the magazine The Crisis He founded the magazine Phylon at Atlanta University Produced two major books Black Reconstruction and Dusk of Dawn Biggest Accomplishment? Biggest accomplishment becoming associate director of the NAACP and making the way for African Americans through Pan Africanism Leader of first Pan-African conference

4. Why did he become a reformer? He became a reformer because he originally believed that social science could provide the knowledge to solve the race issue. Jim Crow laws, riots, and lynchings pushed him to do beneficial things Image of reformer? He acted mainly as a integrationist but his thinking always exhibited degrees his degrees