W.E.B. DUBOIS February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963 Great Barrington, Massachusetts Accra Africa

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W.E.B. DUBOISFebruary 23, 1868 August 27,
1963(Great Barrington, Massachusetts Accra
Africa)
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DUBOIS PRESENTERS

• JENNIFER FARRELL
• STEPHANIE KONKOL
• YAFFA LAHAT
• SISTER ROSEMARY NAKHUMI
• FELICIA RICHARDSON-MCGEE

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LIFE OF W.E.B. DUBOIS

• BORN February 23, 1868
• PARENTS Mary Burghardt Alfred DuBois
• Father left family raised by mother
  grandparents
• Marries Maud Cuney at age 29 marriage lasts for
  53 years 2 children son dies of system
  poisoning. Daughter conceived later.
• 1961 Joins Communist Party
• Marries again after wife dies (40 years his
  junior)
• DIES August 27, 1963 as an African Citizen in
  Accra Africa

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CHARACTER

• Honest, no gambling
• Debt free by choice
• More female friends than male
• Noticed poverty impact on blacks early
• Did not seek white friends
• Liberal Congregationalist slow religious
  development
• Did not possess a weapon until white mobs began
• Loved music singing, sensitive romantic

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EDUCATION

• ATTENDED FISK UNIVERSITY, THEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 1890 Bachelors of Philosophy cum laude
• 1892 Masters in History Political Science
• 1896 Doctorate in Philosophy
• Thesis The Suppression of the African Slave
  Trade to America 1638 - 1870

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CURRICULUM

• Emphasis placed on correcting grammar
• Western slang
• Southern drawl
• Freshmen could elect nearly all courses, except
  English, that was compulsory with thesis, daily
  themes and tough examinations.

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DUBOIS CURRICULUM

• THE OBJECT OF THE WORK OF THE SCHOOLS
• MANHOOD
• INTELLIGENCE
• BROAD SYMPATHY
• KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD THAT WAS AND IS
• RELATION OF MEN TO IT

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• 1892 1894 Attended the University of Berlin
• 1905 Founded Niagara Movement with Monroe
  Trotter
• 1909 Co-founder of NAACP with Monroe Trotter
• 1934 Left NAACP due to predominantly White
  Board
• Editor Chief of The Crisis NAACP
  Publication also weekly columnist

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS (CONTD)

• One of six Negro commencement speakers
• Newspapers
• Chicago Defender
• Pittsburgh Courier
• New York Amsterdam News
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

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PROFESSIONS

• PROFESSOR/TEACHER
• ECONOMIST
• HISTORIAN
• JOURNALIST
• NOVELIST
• PLAYWRIGHT
• POET
• SOCIOLOGIST

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Historical Events

• 1882 Slater Fund for the education of
  Negroes
• 1886 Railway Strike
• 1887 Queens Jubilee
• 1888 Congo Free State Berlin Conference
• 1890 Sherman Act
• 1891 Triple Alliance
• 1892 Homestead Strike
• 1893 Financial Crisis
• 1894 Coveys Army

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DUBOIS VS WASHINGTONThe Problem of Negro
Leadership

• WASHINGTON
• Called for White America to provide jobs and
  industrial-agricultural education for Negroes.
  In exchange, Blacks would give up demands for
  social equality and civil rights. Economic
  control ? civil rights social equality.
• DUBOIS
• Three trends resulted from Washingtons
  influence
• Disfranchisement of the Negro
• Legal creation of a distinct status of civil
  inferiority for the Negro
• Steady withdrawal of and from institutions for
  the higher training of the Negro

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PUBLICATIONS BY DUBOIS

• 1898 THE STUDY OF THE NEGRO PROBLEMS
• 1915 THE NEGRO
• 1939 BLACK FOLK, THEN AND NOW
• 1946 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEGRO
• SEE PUBLICATION LIST FOR MORE DUBOIS PUBLICATIONS

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FAMOUS QUOTES

• The problem of the twentieth century is the
  problem of the color line.
• The worker must work for the glory of his
  handiwork, not simply for pay the thinker must
  think for truth, not for fame.
• The price of freedom is less than the cost of
  repression.
• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race
  in a land of dollars is the very bottom of
  hardships.

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REFERENCES

• W.E.B. DuBois, The Autobiography of W.E.Burghardt
  DuBois A
• Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade
  of Its First
• Century. New York, NY International Publishers
  Co. Inc., 1968,
• pp. 438-440.
• Works by W.E.B. DuBois
• (http//www.gutenberg.org/author/William_Edward_Bu
  rghardt_
• Du_Bois) at Project Gutenberg
• A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois
  (htt//www.dubois.org/html/DuBoisBio.html) by
  Gerald C. Hynes
• Review materials for studying W.E.B. DuBois
  (http//www.bolender.com/Sociological20Theory/DuB
  ois,20W.20E.20B/dubois,_w_e_b_.htm)
• FBI File of William E.B. DuBois
  (http//foia.fbi.gov/dubois/dubois1.pdf)
• The W.E.B. DuBois Virtual University
  (http//members.tripod.com/DuBois/bsia.html)
• Fighting Fire with Fire African Americans and
  Hereditarian Thinking, 1990-1942
  (http//www.wfu.edu/caron/ssrs/Dorr.rtf)
• The Talented Tenth (http//www.yale.edu/glc/archiv
  e/1148.htm

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COMMEMORATIVE STAMP OF DUBOIS

• JANUARY 31, 1992