He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. W.E.B. DuBoise was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and received his undergraduate degree from Fisk University in 1890. In 1909, DuBois formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). At the time, the board was mostly white, with W.E. B. DuBois as the only minority. He was accused of communism and wrote once that Joseph Stalin was a great man. W.E.B. DuBois traveled to Ghana in the early 1960's and was not allowed to return to the United States because of his views of communism. He renounced his citizenship and became a citizen of Ghana. W.E.B. DuBois died in 1963 in that country.
