W. E. B. Du Bois and Family

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W. E. B. Du Bois and his wife, Nina, are pictured with their son, Burghardt, who died of diphtheria in Atlanta in 1899 at the age of two.

Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries

W. E. B. Du Bois and Family

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