62 years ago today, August 27, 1963 (July 9, 1963 in the lunar calendar), the famous American black leader Du Bois passed away. Du Bois, the pioneer of the human rights movement, died on August 27, 1963. William Edward Burghart-Du Bois, the father of the black intelligentsia and founder of the African Liberation Movement, died at the age of 95. He has been buried in Ghana, West Africa, fulfilling his last wish. In 1961, the great black scholar left the United States forever, settled in Canada, and applied to join the Communist Party. He wrote: "My great-grandfather was transported from the Gulf of Guinea in chains. Today I return to my hometown so that my ashes can be buried with the ashes of my ancestors." Du Bois was the first black person to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard. He has been engaged in the human rights movement throughout his life, playing an important role from establishing the American Association for the Advancement of Human Rights of People of Color to later street marches in Washington. In one of his poems, he wrote: "I heard a children's song singing freedom; I saw the face of freedom, and I died with peace." "William Dubois