W. E. B. William Edward Burghardt) DuBois was born February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was the first African American to receive the Ph. D. degree at Harvard University, in 1896; and he shared in the founding of the NAACP in 1909. In 1961, he moved to Ghana, joined the Communist Party, and, the following year, renounced his American citizenship. In 1963, he died in Accra, Ghana, on the even of the March on Washington.

A list of his writings:
The Suppression of the Slave Trade (1896)
The Philadelphia Negro (1899)
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
John Brown (1909)
Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
The Negro (1915)
Darkwater (1920)
The Gift of Black Folk (1924)
Dark Princess (1928)
Black Folk: Then and Now (1939)
Dusk of Dawn (1940)
Color and Democracy (1945)
The World and Africa (1947)
In Battle for Peace (1952)
Black Flame (1957-1961) (a trilogy)