Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois

Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois
Du Bois (left) with her son.
Born	Mary Silvina Burghardt 1831 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	1885 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Mahaiwe Cemetery
Occupation	servant
Spouse	Alfred Du Bois
Children	W.E.B. Du Bois
Parent(s)	Othello Burghardt Sarah Lampman

Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831 – 1885) was an American domestic worker. She was born a free woman as the granddaughter of a freedman landowner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She was the mother of the activist and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, whose education she supported by working as a servant after her husband left her.