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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 ...
The DuBois Pioneer Home is a historic residence, also known as the House on the Hill, [1] in Jupiter, Florida. It was built in 1898 by Charlie Carlin for Harry and Susan DuBois. [2] [3] [4] The house and the mound (midden) on which it stands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Jupiter Inlet Historic and Archeological Site. [5]
She married Alfred Du Bois on February 5, 1867, in Housatonic, Massachusetts. [3] Her husband was born in Haiti as the illegitimate son of Alexander Du Bois, of Long Cay in The Bahamas, and the grandson of James Du Bois, a Huguenot colonist who fathered several children with enslaved women. [4] Her husband worked as a barber and itinerant ...
The decision proved to be wise, as this year marks the DuBois Pioneer Home’s 125 th anniversary, which the site's curators marked with a celebration Tuesday. Located at 19075 DuBois Road in Palm ...
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 ...
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture is a memorial place, a research facility and tourist attraction in the Cantonments area of Accra, Ghana, that was opened to the public in 1985. It is named in dedication to W. E. B. Du Bois, an African-American historian and pan-Africanist who became a citizen of Ghana in the early 1960s. [1]
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 4 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).