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CHRONOLOGY OF W.E.B. DU BOIS:
1868-Born, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1884-Graduated from school
1885-Went to Fisk University, Tennessee
1888-Enrolled at Harvard
1890-Graduated from Harvard
1892-Went to Germany to study at the University of Berlin
1894-Returned from Germany
1896-Received PhD from Harvard
1896-Wrote THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO
1896-Married Nina Gomer
1897-His son, Berghardt is born
1900-Yolande born
1905-Wrote THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
1905-Formed the Niagara Movement
1907-Resigned academia, became full time Civil Rights Activist
1909-Co-founded the NAACP
1910-Director of Research and Publication for the NAACP
1911-Attended World Race Congress, London
1919-Founded Pan African Congress in Paris
1921-Founded Pan African Congress in London
1923-Founded Pan African Congress in Brussels
1928-Made Special Consultant for Liberia
1945-Special Consultant, founding meeting of the United Nations
1948-Final resignation from NAACP
1950-Nina Dies
1951-Runs for Senator of New York
1951-Marries Shirley Graham
1954-Public school segregation declared unconstitutional
1958-Awarded Lenin Peace Prize
1960-Yolanda dies
1961-Moves to Ghana
1963-Dies in Accra, Ghana