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Du Bois: A Chronology| 1868 | Born, February 23rd, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. |
| 1880-1884 | Attends Great Barrington High School; Western Massachusetts Correspondent for the New York Age, the New York Globe and the Springfield Republican; graduates as class valedictorian. |
| 1885-1888 | Attends Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; teaches in rural school districts during the summers; editor of the Fisk Herald; receives B.A. in 1888. |
| 1888-1890 | Enters Harvard as a junior and receives B.A., graduating cum laude. |
| 1890-1892 | Begins graduate study at Harvard. |
| 1892-1894 | Studies at the University of Berlin with a fellowship from the Slater Fund. |
| 1894-1896 | Teaches Latin and Greek at Wilberforce University in Ohio; marries Nina Gomer. |
| 1896 | Receives Ph.D. from Harvard; his dissertation “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade” is published by Harvard University Press. |
| 1896-1897 | Instructor of Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania; publishes The Philadelphia Negro; son Burghardt Gomer Du Bois born on October 2, 1897. |
| 1897-1910 | Teaches history and economics, Atlanta University; initiates the Atlanta University Studies. |
| 1899 | Son Burghardt Gomer Du Bois dies on May 24, 1899. |
| 1900 | Daughter Yolande Du Bois born in 1900. |
| 1903 | Publishes The Souls of Black Folk. |
| 1905-1909 | Founder and General Secretary of The Niagara Movement. |
| 1910-1934 | Director of Publicity and Research, Member Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
| 1910-1934 | Founder and Editor of The Crisis, monthly magazine of the NAACP. |
| 1919 | Calls Pan-African Congress in Paris. |
| 1920 | Receives the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. |
| 1923 | Special Ambassador Representing the United States at the inauguration of President King of Liberia. |
| 1934 | Resigns from the NAACP. |
| 1934-1944 | Returns to Atlanta University as Head, Department of Sociology; publishes Black Reconstruction. |
| 1944-1948 | Returns to NAACP as Director of Publicity and Research. |
| 1945 | Attends founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco as representative of the NAACP. |
| 1948 | Co-chairman, Council on African Affairs. |
| 1950 | Chairman, Peace Information Center in New York City; candidate for U.S. Senate for New York Progressive Party. Wife, Nina Gomer Du Bois, dies and is buried in Great Barrington. |
| 1951 | Indictment, trial, and acquittal of subversive activities charges brought against him by the Justice Department; marries Shirley Graham. |
| 1951-1959 | Extensive speaking, writing, and international travel; wins Lenin Peace Prize in 1958. |
| 1960 | Daughter Yolande Du Bois dies in 1960. |
| 1961 | Becomes member of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Invited to Ghana by President Kwame Nkrumah to edit the Encyclopedia Africana. |
| 1963 | Becomes citizen of Ghana. Dies on August 27th and is buried with a state funeral in Accra. Du Bois’s death is announced by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP as the March on Washington begins on August 28th. |
Du Bois accomplised two other works not covered clearly here:
1) The 1900 Pan-Africanist Conference in London
2) Won Phd. status in five areas at Harvard:
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1945 – WEB DuBOIS attended 5th Pan African conference in Manchester UK.
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