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Nina Gomer Du Bois

1870–1950

United States

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Nina Gomer Du Bois (July 4, 1870 – July 26, 1950) was an American civil rights activist, Baháʼí Faith practitioner, and homemaker. In 1927, she served on the executive committee of the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations, which was largely responsible for organizing the Fourth Pan-African Congress in New York. Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of educator Yolande Du Bois.

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