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W. E. B. Du Bois, circa 1900s
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts in 1868. By the time he posed for this photograph
at the dawn of the 1900s, he had earned a bachelor's degree
(1890) and a Ph.D. (1895) from Harvard University, studied at the
University of Berlin (1892–94), and completed his dissertation "The
Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1
638–1870," which was published in 1896 as the first volume in the
Harvard Historical Studies series. In addition, and a further indication
of the prodigious quantity of influential work he would produce during his
lifetime, in 1899 Du Bois published The Philadelphia Negro, a monograph
in which he set out to "study [social problems] in the light of the best
scientific research."
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