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African-American Scholars of Greco-Roman Culture
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IN THE NINETEENTH century white Americans who wanted to demean the intellectual potential of black people often did so by employing a disparaging reference to their isolation from classical history and culture. In 1834, for example, Vice President John C. Calhoun, a native of North Carolina, said, "If I could find a Negro who knew Greek syntax, I would believe that the Negro was a human being and ought to be treated as a man."
Yet the truth was that by the beginning of the twentieth century there were literally hundreds of blacks in this country who could read, write, and speak Greek and ...
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919.
; ...uncompromising voice of racial justice, W.E.D. Du Bois is among the towering figures of twentiety-centu...comprehensive studies have appeared of Du Bois's great antagonists Booker T. Washington...literary executor, Herbert Aptheker, that Du Bois has been made accessible to ...
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W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet.(Book review)
; W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. By Edward J. Blum. Philadelphia...life, thought, and activities of W. E. B. Du Bois have been treated from many angles by scholars in a range of disciplines. Du Bois has been variously labeled a social scientist...
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A letter from W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter Yolande, dated "Moscow, December 10, 1958": introduction and footnotes.
; 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...
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Origins of a Bitter Intellectual Battle
; ...the 26-year-old William Edward Burghardt Du Bois sent a letter to Booker T Washington...vacancy at Tuskegee for the coming term. Du Bois had just returned from two years of study...president of Johns Hopkins University. Du Bois had been at Fisk with Washington's wife...
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DU BOIS DEBATE WORTHY OF A MANIFESTO COMMUNIST TIES HAMPER MOVEMENT TO PAY TRIBUTE
; GREAT BARRINGTON W.E.B. Du Bois may be this town's most famous native...his legacy is tainted by politics: Du Bois was a Communist. For years, Great Barrington...grappled with how to pay tribute to Du Bois. Efforts to erect markers have met...
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Du Bois and His Rivals
; Du Bois and His Rivals. By Raymond Wolters. (Columbia...0-8262-1385-5.) The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois-NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father...the latest scholar to take the measure of Du Bois, and despite the well-deserved accolades...
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Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review)
; ...0-8262-1385-5.) The literature on W. E. B. Du Bois--NAACP founder, scholar, novelist, father...latest scholar to take the measure of Du Bois, and despite the well-deserved accolades...he tackles the major controversies in Du Bois's long life largely through scrutinizing...
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On Du Bois's move to Africa. (W.E.B. Du Bois)
; The opinion has arisen that Du Bois's move to Africa in 1961 was indicative...autobiography notes the striking fact that Dr. Du Bois's death had occurred in Accra on the very...ensued. In this book Wilkins refers to Du Bois's early fight against Jim Crow, giving...
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W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet
; W. E. B. Du Bois: American Prophet. By Edward J. Blum. Politics and Culture...witii the frequent scholarly characterization of W. E. B. Du Bois as irreligious, Blum argues that Du Bois "was one of America's most profound religious thinkers...
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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
; ...IT WAS in 1960 that I last saw W.E.B. Du Bois. My younger brother and I, then teenagers...of a nuclear war. Among the group were Du Bois and his second wife, the writer Shirley Graham. After listening to our account, Du Bois, then 92, remarked with a knowing smile...
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