This proponent of African-American rights said, “There is no such force in the world as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
W.E.B. DuBois, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. DuBois cofounded the NAACP in 1909. He died in Ghana on August 27, 1963, one day before Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington D.C.
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