Which civil rights leader, born free in massachusetts, was the first african american to earn a doctoral degree from harvard? a. george washington carver b. booker t. washington c. ida b. wells d. w. e.b. dubois

The civil rights leader that born free in Massachusetts and was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard was W.E.B. DuBois.

Explanation:

W.E.B. Du Bois, born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was an American civil rights activist, pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

Du Bois studied first at Fisk University, then at the University of Berlin and finally at Harvard, where he became the first African American to be promoted to a Ph.D. in philosophy at this university in 1895. In 1909, he founded the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP).

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