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  2. W. E. B. Du Bois - Wikipedia

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    W. E. B. Du Bois Portrait by James E. Purdy, 1907 Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-02-23) February 23, 1868 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. Died August 27, 1963 (1963-08-27) (aged 95) Accra, Ghana Citizenship United States Ghana (from 1961) Education Fisk University (BA) Harvard University (AB, PhD) Friedrich Wilhelm University Known for The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Black ...

  3. Fisk University - Wikipedia

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    Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre (16 ha) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

  4. List of Fisk University alumni - Wikipedia

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    1953. first African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics; former Chair, mathematics department at Spelman College. John Hope Franklin. 1935. historian, professor, scholar, author of landmark text From Slavery to Freedom. Victor O. Frazer. United States House of Representatives (1995–1997) Alonzo Fulgham.

  5. Hazel R. O'Leary - Wikipedia

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    1. Education. Fisk University ( BA) Rutgers University, Newark ( LLB) Hazel Reid O'Leary (born May 17, 1937) is an American lawyer, politician and university administrator who served as the 7th United States secretary of energy from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Leary was the first woman and first African American to hold ...

  6. Booker T. Washington - Wikipedia

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    Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite . Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...

  7. Ida B. Wells - Wikipedia

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    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for ...

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