W.E.B.杜博斯的成長過程

W.E.B.杜博斯的母親是一位傭人，而他的父親是一位理髮師。他的父親在杜博斯小時就己經離家。年輕時的威廉成長於麻州的大巴靈頓，在那裡，他受到了當地中學的老師鼓勵。當他的媽媽死於1884年時，杜博斯只有16歲大而且身無分文。為支付生活所需，他在當地的一家麵粉廠擔任工時記錄員，令人驚奇的是，同年他也成為就讀中學裡，第一個畢業的非裔美人。杜博斯在田納西州那什維爾的費斯克大學念了兩年大學，然後又在哈佛大學取得他的學士及博士學位。

W.E.B. Du Bois's mother was a domestic worker and his father was a barber. His father left the family when William was still very young. Young William grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he received encouragement from teachers in the local high school. When his mother died in 1884, Du Bois was 16 years old and penniless. To make ends meet, he worked as a timekeeper in a local mill. Amazingly, that same year he managed to become the first African American to graduate from his high school. Du Bois went on to attend Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, for two years and then went on to earn his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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