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The famous scholar W. E. B. DuBois was the first Black person to earn a doctorate from what prestigious college?
Penn State
Princeton
Harvard
Stanford
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DuBois was born and raised in what state whose more integrated status afforded him the opportunities to become a scholar?
Texas
Massachusetts
Colorado
California
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W. E. B. DuBois was a critical member of what social school of thought which emphasized the need for unity between all people of African descent?
Encyclopos Afries
Pan-Africanism
The Congolese College
Liberianism
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W. E. B. DuBois' main field of study was in human societies and how they functioned and were structured. What is the official title for this area of study?
Psychology
Paleontology
Sociology
Biology
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DuBois' writings repopularized the use of the phrase "the color line" as a representation of the barriers Black people faced while trying to advance in western society. What previous civil rights activist coined this term?
John Brown
Marcus Garvey
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
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In 1935, DuBois released the sociological paper Black Reconstruction in America which explored the role that African Americans played in American history following what war?
World War One
The Spanish-American War
The American Civil War
The American Revolutionary War
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In 1909, DuBois helped found what famous organization that sought to expand civil rights for people of color?
The N.A.A.C.P.
C.O.R.E.
The U.N.E.
The B.L.R.
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DuBois was one of the most prolific editors to lead what famous publication released by the N.A.A.C.P. to discuss racial issues across the U.S.A.?
FIRE!!!
The Crisis
Bedlam
The North Star
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In 1920, W.E.B. DuBois caused a fair amount of division through his opposition to what other notable Black activist who supported the idea that African Americans should return to Africa?
Contrell Marx
Malcolm X
Peter Doubleday
Marcus Garvey
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What is the name of the 1940 autobiography that W.E.B. DuBois released?
Dusk of Dawn
First of the Last
Seeing is Blinding
My First Final Day
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DuBois also caused a rift in the early Civil Rights Movement by opposing the passive methods espoused by what famous Tuskegee scholar?
Booker T. Washington
Arthur Calloway
Oliver Howard
Malcolm I. Crowley
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DuBois helped to found what civil rights philosophical group that were united in their opposition to Booker T. Washington's passive philosophy of gaining equality as spelled out in his Atlanta Compromise?
The Niagara Movement
The Virginia Movement
The Canada Movement
The Ottawa Movement
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In 1950, W. E. B. DuBois married what fellow activist who helped him with his sociological work for the rest of his life?
Wendy Hill
Shirley Graham
Angela T. Londale
Maria P. Eckhart
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For the final years of his life from 1961 to 1963, W. E. B. DuBois moved to what nation in order to do sociological and scholarly work on African history past and present?
Ethiopia
Chad
Kenya
Ghana
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DuBois spent his final years in Ghana working on preparing what massive academic work which was meant to be the first comprehensive history and encyclopedia of African cultures written by Africans and people of African descent?
The Encyclopedia Africana
The DuBois Scrolls
The Niagara Codex
The Sun of Africa
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