Great Barrington native W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
helped establish the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its magazine
The Crisis, and
authored The Souls of Black Folk and
Black Reconstruction. Considered the father of
the Pan-African and American civil rights movements,
he died in Accra, Ghana, on August 27, on the eve of
the 1963 March on Washington.
