Quincy, Illinois (July 4, 1870 -July 26, 1950) 80 yrs

Nina Gomer DuBois 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 married civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1986. They had two children: a son, Burghardt, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Yolande. She was involved in her husband’s civil rights work but mostly stayed home to raise their daughter. She served on the executive committee of the Women’s International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations alongside Minta Bosley Allen Trotman and Addie Waites Hunton. The committee was largely responsible for organizing the 1927 fourth Pan-African Congress in New York City.