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W. E. B. Du Bois was 39 years old when "The Song of the Smoke" was published in the February 1907 issue of Horizon, a magazine which he himself edited. The poem is understood as "an affirmation of black pride," but Du Bois's ultimate acceptance of the need to call for black pride was the culmination of a difficult process. He was born into a community of free blacks in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, and...

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W.E.B. DuBois Biographies (8)

W. E. B. Du Bois

5,379 words, approx. 18 pages

"[T]he problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, arguably the best, if not most famous, of all the works of this remarkable... Read more

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

1,286 words, approx. 5 pages

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major African American scholar, an early leader in the 20th-century African American protest movement, and an advocate of pan-Africanism.On Feb. 23, ... Read more

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4,092 words, approx. 14 pages

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lived a life so full of conflictive action and reaction, so marked by radical gesture, so dramatically out of tune with the main thrusts of American life in the first ... Read more

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6,398 words, approx. 22 pages

"Every intellectual," writes Ignazio Silone, "is a revolutionary," and though this may not be generally true, in the case of W.E.B. Du Bois , the observation is both accurate and fitting. The interna... Read more

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W. E. B. Du Bois, scholar, intellectual, historian, educator, author, and civil-rights activist, was also an accomplished journalist who made expert use of the press to advance his philosophy concerni... Read more

W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois

7,077 words, approx. 24 pages

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the major figures in the struggle for human rights both in the United States and worldwide. A founder of both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People... Read more

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

6,767 words, approx. 23 pages

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

952 words, approx. 4 pages

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963), African American scholar, protest leader, and an advocate of pan-Africanism, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he g... Read more

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