NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

February 23, 2010 05:00:00 am

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868.

Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with “communist front groups.”

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