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+William Edward Burghardt Du Bois+--man of letters.
Born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1865. Of negro descent but with
large admixture of white blood. A.B., Fisk University, 1888; Harvard,
1890; A.M., 1891; Ph.D., 1895. Studied at the University of Berlin.
Professor of economics and history, Atlanta University, 1896-1910.
Director of publicity of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and editor of the _Crisis_, 1910--.
Mr. Du Bois is a distinguished economist and primarily a propagandist for
the equal rights and education of the negro, but he belongs to literature
as the author of _Darkwater_.