| LC control no. | n 80046721 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3507.U147 |
| Personal name heading | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 |
| Variant(s) | Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Du Bois, W. E. (William Edward), 1868-1963 Di︠u︡bua, Uilʹi︠a︡m Ėdvard Burgkhardt, 1868-1963 Di︠u︡bua, Vilʹi︠a︡m, 1868-1963 Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963 DuBois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Du Bois, William, 1868-1963 Du Bois, W. B. (William Burghardt), 1868-1963 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Other standard no. | 0000000108863087 34476326 Q158060 |
| Associated country | United States Ghana |
| Birth date | 1868-02-23 |
| Death date | 1963-08-27 |
| Place of birth | Great Barrington (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Accra (Ghana) |
| Field of activity | Sociology Civil rights Pan-Africanism |
| Affiliation | Harvard University Communist Party of the United States of America |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Political activists Authors |
| Found in | Author's The college-bred negro ... 1900. DeMarco, J.P. The social thought of W.E.B. DuBois, c1983: title page (in title: W.E.B. DuBois) Haïti, c1983: title page (William Du Bois) cover (W.B. Du Bois) Marcus Garvey ... 1995: tome 2, page 11 (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; b. Feb. 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; d. Aug. 27, 1963) Duboisweb website, viewed Jan. 11, 2013 (1868: William Edward Du Bois is born on February 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; 1961: Joins the Communist Party of the United States. Moves to Ghana and takes up residence in Accra. 1963: Takes Ghana citizenship. Dies on August 27 and is buried with a state funeral in Accra) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Du Bois, W. E. B.; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; social historian / commentator, sociologist, civil rights activist, political activist; born 23 February 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States; MA in History (1892) and PhD from Harvard (1896); joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), became a citizen of Ghana; died 27 August 1963 in Accra, Ghana) Wikipedia, 8 Sept. 2020 (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Mass., died August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana, aged 95; an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor; in Great Barrington, Mass., Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University; Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois> W.E.B. Du Bois: international thought, 2022: t.p. (W.E.B Du Bois) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no 00055060 |
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