Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on the 23rd of February 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His family had navigated American history for generations, including a great-great-grandfather who was a slave born in West Africa around 1730.
W. E. B. Du Bois published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, which introduced the concept of double consciousness to the national consciousness. The book challenged prevailing narratives and argued that the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois died in Accra, Ghana on the 27th of August 1963. He chose to live in Ghana to avoid persecution from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and to continue his commitment to Pan-Africanism.
W. E. B. Du Bois became the editor of The Crisis, the monthly magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which he helped found. The first issue appeared in November 1910 and circulation reached 100,000 in 1920.
W. E. B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction in America in 1935, which presented a thesis that black people were central figures in the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. The book documented how black emancipation promoted a radical restructuring of United States society.