Biography

W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Scary Stories Around the Fire (2021). He was married to Shirley Graham and Nina Gomer. He died on August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana.

Grandfather of Yolande Du Bois Williams Irvin.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age . . . that men know so little of men.

The history of the world is the history, not of individuals, but of groups, not of nations, but of races, and he who ignores or seeks to override the race idea in human history ignores and overrides the central thought of all history. What, then, is a race? It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, traditions and impulses, who are both voluntarily and involuntarily striving together for the accomplishment of certain more or less vividly conceived ideals of life.