W.E.B. Dubois

“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.”
W.E.B. Dubois

W.E.B Dubois was born into a world of Segregation in the U.S. Despite that he excelled in his schooling, going to a historically black university and then moving on to be the First African American with a PH.D from Harvard University. He was a socialist and historian, who focused on the rights and equal treatment of African Americans. He wrote many books and excerpts; The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States, The Souls of Black Folk, Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery, and Slave & Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. He is an inspiration to many and helped to establish the NAACP, which helped many African Americans reach the heights that they do now.