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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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W. E. B. Du Bois
Age: 95 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: August 27
Autobiographer
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Human Rights Activist
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
WEB Du Bois
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