Today, February 23rd, iss the birthday of the great Civil Rights activist, scholar, and author William Edward Burghardt, better-known as W.E.B. Du Bois. W.E.B. DuBois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he went on to become a professor at Atlanta University and a well-known author and intellectual. He is probably best known as a co-founder of the NAACP and champion of civil rights.
My original reader W.E.B. DuBois - Standing Up for Civil Rights is a great story for his birthday week, and for the last week of Black History Month! This second- grade level M reader is one of the ten books included in the collection called Famous African-Americans in U.S. History: Leveled Books for Grades 1 – 3.
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