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Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois. [3] Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington and had long owned land in the state.
The W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite (or W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite) is a National Historic Landmark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating an important location in the life of African American intellectual and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963). The site contains foundational remnants of the home of Du Bois's ...
W. E. B. Du Bois's double-consciousness depiction of black existence has come to epitomize the existential determinants of black self-consciousness. These alienated forms of black consciousness have been categorically defined in African-American cultural studies as: The Negro Problem, The Color Line, Black Experience, Black Power, The Veil of ...
The book studies the early and middle years of Du Bois's life. It is the first in a two-part biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994, as did Lewis's second installment, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963, winning the Pulitzer in 2001. [1]
The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America (1894) was W. E. B. Du Bois's doctoral thesis for Harvard University which he finished while teaching at Wilberforce University. [1] This thesis made Du Bois the first African-American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard. [2] [additional citation(s) needed]
The Center was established as the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute in May 1975, making it the oldest research center focused on the study of the history, culture, and society of Africans and African Americans. [2] It was named after the first African American to be awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. It ...
The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by Project Gutenberg in 2011. [1] It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songhai, as well as covering the history of the slave trade and the history of Africans in the United States and the Caribbean.
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963