may 3, 1868 - W. E. B. DU BOIS helped to establish the NAACP and entered into the forefront of the early U.S., civil rights movement.
Description:
However in the late 1920's, he faced a power struggle with the NAACP's executive secretary, Walter White. He had retreated to a position others saw as dangerously close to that of Booker T. Washington.Added to timeline:
Date:
may 3, 1868
Now
~ 157 years ago