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In 2006, African Americans constituted 12.4 percent of computer science bachelorâs degree recipients, roughly equivalent to the percentage of African Americans in the United States population, 12.8. The resolution also recognizes Clarence âSkipâ Ellis, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in computer science. Dr. Ellis received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969. âFebruary is Black History Month, and there is no better way to celebrate than to recognize the accomplishments of the African Americans throughout the country who have earned degrees in computer science,â Congresswoman Johnson said.
Du Bois is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline, along with Karl Marx, Ãmile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Harriet Martineau. Du Bois was the first Black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was also one of the founders of the NAACP, and a leader at the forefront of the movement for Black civil rights in the U.S. Later in his life he was an activist for peace and opposed nuclear weapons, which made him a target of FBI harassment.