W.E.B Du Bois was an american sociologist,historian,civil rights activist and pan-African author and editor. He’s name is William Edward Burghardt he was born on February 23, 1868 great barrington, united states. He was the leader of the Niagara movement, it was a group of African-american activists who wanted equal rights for black people. Racism was the main target of Du Bois’s campaign. Du Bois wrote one of the first scientific treaties in the field of american sociology and he published three auto-biographies which all contain insightful essays on sociology.