W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, writer and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard. In The Souls of Black Folk of 1903 he wrote that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line". A founder of the NAACP, he edited its journal The Crisis from 1910 and, after the First World War, helped to organise several Pan-African Congresses. He settled in Ghana in 1961 and died in Accra.