On 27 August 1963, pioneering African-American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois died aged 95 in Accra, Ghana. This is an interesting article about the importance of his ideas: https://libcom.org/library/w-e-b-du-bois-proletariat-black-reconstruction-ferruccio-gambino
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"Death of W.E.B. DuBois in Ghana, 1963." Historianspeaks, August 27, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/death-of-web-dubois-in-ghana-1963.
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