“Graduating from Fisk University in Nashville in 1888, he took a second bachelor’s degree at Harvard in 1890 and an MA in history there in 1892, then went to Europe for two years’ study at Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Ohio and the next year became the first black to be awarded as Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1896, when hi Harvard doctoral dissertation on the suppression of the African slave trade was published to critical acclaim, DuBois was at the University of Pennsylvania leading a comprehensive sociological study of Philadelphia’s Negro population population, the first such analysis ever made of an American black community.”-From, “At The Hands of Persons Unknown” By: Philip Dray
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