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February 23rd

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  1. 1868
    The Rise

    W.E.B. Du Bois born

    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He becomes the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard, a co-founder of the NAACP, and a founder of the sociology of Black America.

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