William E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Description

Only ruins mark the site of the boyhood home of prominent sociologist and writer William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. A a major figure in the African-American civil rights movement during the first half of the 20th century, he helped found the NAACP. He authored more than 20 books and several hundred articles. He was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. degree from Harvard, and his dissertation, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade," became the first volume in the Harvard Historical