DuBois, Dr. Shirley b. November 11, 1896 d. March 27, 1977 African-American political activist, biographer, teacher, novelist playwright, composer and advisor, as well as spouse of noted African-American thinker, writer, and activst Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. Born Shirley Lola Graham, she is remembered and admired for her commitment to the racial uplift of all peoples of color as well as African-Americans. Shirley Graham DuBois was born in Evansville, Indiana on November 11, 1896 (She often gave her age as up to ten years younger), at a time when Jim Crow...[Read More] (Bio by: Curtis Jackson) Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana Plot: Ashes beside tomb of her husband
DuBois, Dr. W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) b. February 23, 1868 d. August 27, 1963 Social Reformer, Author. The co-founder of the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Pan-African Congress, he was a scholar and seeker of racial equality for African-Americans and one of the most significant leaders of his generation. He, along with Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, is considered one of the most influential African-Americans before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. Born only six years after...[Read More] (Bio by: Curtis Jackson) Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Nkrumah, Kwame b. September 21, 1909 d. April 27, 1972 Ghanian Politician. Nkrumah was the founder of Pro-Africanism and later served as Prime Minister of Ghana from 1957 to 1964, and as President of Ghana from 1964 to 1966. A native of Nkroful, Ghana, he attended the Achiomota School in Accra, Ghana, the Roman Catholic Seminary in Amisano, Ghana, and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he received a BA in 1939. He later helped to establish the Sixth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England, in 1945, and then he began to work for the...[Read More] (Bio by: K) Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park And Mausoleum, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
b. November 11, 1896 d. March 27, 1977