WEB Debois timeline
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Updated: 19 Feb 2021
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W.E.B. DuBois is bornW.E.B. Du Bois DeathDu Bois took a position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offered Du Bois a job in 1897Du Bois’ son Burghardt contracted diphtheria and diedIn 1905, Du Bois was a founder and general secretary of the Niagara MovementIn 1884, Du Bois graduated from high school as valedictorian.Black Folk, Then and Now (1939) is an elaboration of the history of black people in Africa and the New World.In 1948, he was cochairman of the Council on African AffairsDarkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920); and two histories of black people,1950 he served as chairman of the Peace Information Center and ran for the U.S. SenateDu Bois returned to the NAACP as director of special research in 1944
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