Important Dates in History 1898 Paul Tutmarc, a musician and inventor, develops and markets the electric bass guitar in Seattle in 1936. W. E. B. Du Bois founds the civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in 1909. Albert Nelson Marquis establishes Marquis Who’s Who in 1898. 1909 1936
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