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The Remarkable Life of W.E.B. Du Bois; W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
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Foner, Eric
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
01-31-2001
I THINK IT WAS in 1960 that I last saw W.E.B. Du Bois. My younger brother
and I, then teenagers, were describing to a group of my parents' friends
how, along with hundreds of other young people, we had defiantly remained
in the open air during a cold war civil defense drill when everyone in New
York City was supposed to go underground to practice survival in case of a
nuclear war. Among the group were D...
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919.
The Nation
; Drum Major for Justice Scholar, poet and activist, founder of the N.A.A.C.P., father of pan-Africanism, uncompromising voice of racial justice, W.E.D. Du Bois is among the towering figures of twentiety-century America. Yet, until the publication of David Levering Lewis's superb new book, his life
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A letter from W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter Yolande, dated "Moscow, December 10, 1958": introduction and footnotes.
The Journal of Negro History
; Published here for the first time is a rare 1958 letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to his daughter, Yolande Du Bois Williams. Du Bois wrote the letter at a sanitarium near Moscow, four months into an extended trip through western and eastern Europe, Soviet Russia, Soviet Central Asia, and China. The
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Origins of a Bitter Intellectual Battle
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
; ON JULY 27, 1894, the 26-year-old William Edward Burghardt Du Bois sent a letter to Booker T Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, asking whether there was a vacancy at Tuskegee for the coming term. Du Bois had just returned from two years of study in Europe and was a "Fisk
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DU BOIS DEBATE WORTHY OF A MANIFESTO COMMUNIST TIES HAMPER MOVEMENT TO PAY TRIBUTE
The Boston Globe
; GREAT BARRINGTON W.E.B. Du Bois may be this town's most famous native son, known widely as a leading 20th-century intellectual and a founder of the NAACP. But some in this Western Massachusetts community say his legacy is tainted by politics: Du Bois was a Communist. For years, Great Barrington has
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