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In 1892, he received a stipend to do graduate work in history and economics at 
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historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great 
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he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of 
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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940), his
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... His doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the 
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... In 1940 appeared Dusk of Dawn, subtitled An Essay Toward an Autobiography 
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America (1935), Black Folk Then and Now (1939), Dusk of Dawn (1940), and 
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Color and... [DOC] [TLE] WEB Du Bois Honor Society - Honors College University of Maryland [PAR] After earning his bachelor's degree at Fisk, Du Bois entered Harvard University. 
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Question: "Dusk Of Dawn" was a 1940 autobiography of this first black American to get a doctoral degree from Harvard
Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois