w.e.b. du bois

     

Social reformer William Edward Burghardt...

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  • "Dusk Of Dawn" was a 1940 autobiography of this first black American to get a doctoral degree from Harvard
  • The first black to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, his initials stood for William Edward Burghardt
  • Seen here, he was the first African American awarded a doctorate by Harvard
  • This author of "The Souls of Black Folk" is seen here on a U.S. stamp
  • (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) I direct a research institute at Harvard University named for this author of "The Souls of Black Folk", black America's leading public intellectual through most of his long life, 1868-1963

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