Civil Rights Activist: W. E. B. Dubois

William Edward Burghardt famously recognized as W.E.B Dubois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. W.E.B Dubois was famously recognized as an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. W.E.B Dubois was born to parents Alfred Dubois and Mary Silvina Du Bois who was apart of a diminutive group of released blacks. During Dubois’ early childhood, his parents got divorced in 1870 when W.E.B was two years of age and he lived with his mother till she died in 1885. In the community where W.E.B lived, it consisted of approximately 5,000 whites and about 50 blacks and the community was tolerant, but experienced a little racism as a child. When William’s mother was newly divorced,