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NEW YORK - 1958: Author, sociologist, historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois poses for a portrait with his wife author, playwright, composer, and activist Shirley Graham Du Bois at their home at 31 Grace Court in Brooklyn Heights in 1958 in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Attie/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - 1958: Author, sociologist, historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois poses for a portrait with his wife author, playwright, composer, and activist Shirley Graham Du Bois at their home at 31 Grace Court in Brooklyn Heights in 1958 in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Attie/Getty Images)