Early Life
- Born 1868
- 3 years after the Civil War ended
- Former black slaves had been freed 5 years earlier because of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
- Educated in integrated schools
- 1888 - BA Frisk University
- 1895 Ph. D. Harvard.
- He was the first black recipient.
- There is a W. E. B DuBois Medal awarded to those who have made a contribution to African and African American history and culture.