W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), the American scholar & activist

Legal name, Full name

"William Edward Burghardt Du Bois"

Born

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1868; February 1868; February 23rd 1868; the United States; North America;  …

Massachusetts; New England; the world; the Americas; West Africa; Northeastern United States; the Northern Hemisphere; the Massachusetts 413 telephone code area; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Berkshire County, MA; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; the continental United States; the contiguous United States; the EST/EDT region; the G8; North America

Died

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1963, August 1963, August 27th 1963, Africa, Ghana,  …

the world, Accra, the Northern Hemisphere, Accra Metropolis District, the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone, US postal Group 7, the African GMT region, Africa-Eurasia

Wrote

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The Souls of Black Folk, The Negro, The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics), The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics), The quest of the silver fleece,  …

W.E.B. Du Bois on Asia, The illustrated Souls of Black folk, The world of W.E.B. Du Bois, Dark princess, Writings, John Brown, Darkwater

Occupation

writer, historian, academic

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B._Du_Bois

Won

Pulitzer Prize

Gender

male

Nationality

ghanaian, american

Educated

Harvard, Fisk University

Last Name

"Du Bois"

First Name

"William"

Main Occupation

journalist

Age at Death

95 years, 6 months and 4 days old

Class

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person, communist, african-american, Saint, artist,  …

social scientist, writer, historian, Pisces person, organization founder, award winner, activist, philosopher, academic, author

Did

die (August 27th 1963)

Influence of, Influences

Karl Marx, George Santayana

Services

evidence

Went to

the United States, Ghana, The Bahamas

Influenced

Cornel West, Bayard Rustin, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lewis Gordon, Sutton E. Griggs

Born During

January 1st 1860, 00:00 - December 31st 1869, 23:59

Died During

January 1st 1960, 00:00 - December 31st 1969, 23:59

Attributes

african-american, male, ghanaian

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Influence

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Related Websites

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http://liturgyandmusic.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/august-3-william-edward-burghardt-dubois-sociologist-1963; http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DUBOIS/cover.html; http://folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=w.e.b.%20dubois&sType=%27phrase%27; http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/webdubois/a/bio_dubois.htm; http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=75;  …

http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0103&s=; http://authors.aalbc.com/dubois.htm; http://www.skipmason.com/hm/hm22.htm; http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1148.htm; http://www.wfu.edu/~caron/ssrs/Dorr.rtf; http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/bsia.html; http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/dubois.htm; http://www.bolender.com/Sociological%20Theory/DuBois,%20W.%20E.%20B/DuBois,_w__e__b_.htm; http://www.DuBoislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html; http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031291/W-E-B-Du-Bois; http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php#DUBOIS; http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81210; http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-905; http://www.naacp.org/about/history/dubois; http://www.duboisweb.org/chronology.html; http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/exhibits/dubois/intro.htm; http://www.goldenvoice.biz; http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/dubois

Wife

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Colleague

Lorraine Hansberry

OpenCyc ID

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DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/W._E._B._Du_Bois

Middle-name

"Burghardt", "Edward"

Birthday

the 23rd of February

Quotes

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"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."; "To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."; "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."; "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."; "The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?";  …

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."; "One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."; "If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."; "Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."; "But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."; "Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."; "An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."; "A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."

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