W.E.B. Du Bois
(About.com) I've been re-reading Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963, and I had forgotten this anecdote about W.E.B. Du Bois, the eminent historian.
Someone congratulated him on being the first African American to earn a doc
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