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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/ d uː ˈ b ɔɪ s / doo-BOYSS; [1] [2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
The talented tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. Although the term was created by white Northern philanthropists, it is primarily associated with W. E. B. Du Bois, who used it as the title of an influential essay, published in 1903.
Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is a 1940 autobiographical text by W. E. B. Du Bois that examines his life and family history in the context of contemporaneous developments in race relations.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award is given annually by the American Sociological Association to a scholar among its members, whose cumulative body of work constitutes a significant contribution to the advancement of sociology. [1]
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 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 ...
Renderings of the future W.E.B. DuBois Academy school in the Newburg neighborhood. "This will be more than a building, it is a symbol of the district's commitment to racial equity," said Corrie ...
Du Bois maintained that the book was written to develop an understanding of the complications of the color-line with emphasis on its political implications. “I venture to write again on themes on which great souls have already said greater words, in the hope that I may strike here and there a half-tone, newer even if slighter, up from the ...