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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.
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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 ...
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Yolande's daughter, Du Bois Williams, married Arthur Edward McFarlane, Sr., and had a son, the first male born in the Du Bois family since Burghardt in 1897 (that child had died tragically at 18 months of age and was the topic of a chapter in W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk). Arthur Edward McFarlane, II, was born ...
The groundbreaking for the new W.E.B. DuBois Academy on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The $62 million building will serve middle and high school boys who learn from an Afrocentric curriculum. The ...
Du Bois believed children should be taught their racial identity and social situation. [8] The name of the magazine is derived from the folkloric brownies , creatures who were said to complete household chores at night in exchange for food, alluding to African Americans being used as servants, but the term is used as signification in the ...
The DuBois Pioneer Home is turning 125 years old. The home, pictured here, was built in 1898 along the banks of the Jupiter Inlet by Harry DuBois as a wedding present to his new bride, Susan.