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Events on Tuesday 27 August 1963 1
1868 – 1963W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)Died 27 August 1963, aged 95W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights leader who co-founded the NAACP and championed Pan-Africanism. He spent his final years in Ghana after growing disillusioned with racial progress in the United States. He died in Accra on the eve of the March on Washington.