William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents, Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois, were well-established, property-holding families in the area, descended from mixed race people who were free long before the Civil War. Alfred was born in Haiti and emigrated to the United States sometime before 1860. […]

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