William Edward Burghardt DuBois
...above his fellow students academically. Upon graduation from High School, he, like many other students of his caliber, desired to attend an ivy league college, his choice Harvard. However, he lacked the financial resources to attend the institution at this time; but with the aid of aid of a scholarship he was able to attend FisK University . At Fisk University he received a Bachelor's Degree. After graduation from Fisk Dubois entered Harvard classified as a junior. As a student his education focused on philosophy. Centered in history. As determined he was attend and graduate from Harvard, he never felt as though he was apart of it. Later in life he remarked " I was in Harvard but not of it ".He recieved in 1890 and immediately began working toward his master's and doctorate's degrees. He became the first African-American to receive at Ph.D from Harvard in 1895. Taking a teaching postion at Atlanta Unversity in 1897, DuBois explored and confronted the South in person and in the studies he directed in Southern society. In 1905, DuBois founded the Niagara Movement, Which became later became the NAACP , in oppostion to the conservative approach to issues concerning African-Americans taken by Booker T. Washington. DuBois edited The Crisis ,the publication of the NAA...