jun 27, 1868 - W.E.B. DuBois was born (1868)
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DuBois was born in Massachusetts. He was an important figure in the early Civil Rights Movement. His organization, the NAACP, and his ideals for immediate social and political rights for all African-Americans or Blacks, led to the successes of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960. DuBois is connected to Booker T. Washington because he opposed his philosophy.
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