February 23, 2021
On this day in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer – was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.”
Read short AWTT biography of Du Bois
More in-depth biography from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
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