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William Du Bois's paternal great-grandfather was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with enslaved women. [9] One of James' mixed-race sons was Alexander, who was born on Long Cay in the Bahamas in 1803; in 1810, he immigrated to the United States with his father ...
Du Bois was born on October 21, 1900, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, [3] her father's hometown, to William Edward Burghardt and Nina (née Gomer) Du Bois. [4] They had arrived there from Atlanta, Georgia, shortly after the death of their infant son Burghardt from diphtheria in 1899. [3]
William Leo Hansberry (February 25, 1894 – November 3, 1965) was an American scholar, lecturer and pioneering Afrocentrist. [1] He was the older brother of real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry , uncle of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and great-granduncle of actress Taye Hansberry.
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist, husband of Nina Gomer Du Bois and father of Yolande Du Bois (see below) William Pène du Bois (1916–1993), author and illustrator
She gave birth to a son, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, on February 23, 1868. [1] Her husband abandoned her and her son in 1870. [5] [3] Du Bois moved, with her son, back to the home of her parents in Great Barrington, where they lived until her son was five years old. They attended First Congregational Church of Great Barrington. Du Bois ...
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After being abandoned by Du Bois's father, his mother moved with her infant son to the house of her parents, Othello Burghardt and his wife. [5] In his 1928 article, "The House of the Black Burghardts", Du Bois described the house as "a delectable place — simple, square and low, with the great room of the fireplace, the flagged kitchen, half ...