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By the time he died in 1963 he wrote 17 books, edited 4 journals and was a key influencer in reimaging black-white relations.

In 1896 Dubois doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1970, was published (Rudwick, 2021). In 1895, he became the first African American to obtain a Ph D. During this study abroad DuBois began to see how different areas of the world treated him differently based on the color of his skin which led to his understanding of double-consciousness (Pittman, 2016). After receiving his bachelor’s degree DuBois attended Harvard University where he received yet another bachelor’s degree in 1890 and his masters in 1891 and between 1892-1894 DuBois studied abroad at Friedrich-Wilhelm III University (Holt, 2008). When DuBois moved to Nashville this is where he first encountered Jim Crow laws, and this is where he began to investigate the troubles of American Racism (A&E Networks Television, 2021). In 1884, DuBois graduated valedictorian from high school then he moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he received his bachelor’s degree from Fisk University in 1888. DuBois was born three years after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era to his mother was Mary Silvina Burghardt who was a domestic worker, and his father Alfred DuBois who was a barber and an itinerant labor. He is also a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (W.E.B. He is known as an American sociologist, a historian, author, editor, and an activist who was well renowned for his contributions as a Black intellectual leader throughout the beginning of the 20 th century.

William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, photographed by C.