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    W.E.B. Du Bois was an influential African American intellectual born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He was the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and published widely before becoming the director of the NAACP and starting their journal, The Crisis. Du Bois criticized Booker T. Washington's acceptance of racial segregation and approach to education, arguing it undermined Black progress and pride. He received several honors for his work promoting civil rights and equality, before leaving the U.S. to become a citizen of Ghana, where he died just before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

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    W.E.B. Du Bois was an influential African American intellectual born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He was the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and published widely before becoming the director of the NAACP and starting their journal, The Crisis. Du Bois criticized Booker T. Washington's acceptance of racial segregation and approach to education, arguing it undermined Black progress and pride. He received several honors for his work promoting civil rights and equality, before leaving the U.S. to become a citizen of Ghana, where he died just before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

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    W.E.B. Du Bois was an influential African American intellectual born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He was the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and published widely before becoming the director of the NAACP and starting their journal, The Crisis. Du Bois criticized Booker T. Washington's acceptance of racial segregation and approach to education, arguing it undermined Black progress and pride. He received several honors for his work promoting civil rights and equality, before leaving the U.S. to become a citizen of Ghana, where he died just before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

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    W.E.B. Du Bois was an influential African American intellectual born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He was the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and published widely before becoming the director of the NAACP and starting their journal, The Crisis. Du Bois criticized Booker T. Washington's acceptance of racial segregation and approach to education, arguing it undermined Black progress and pride. He received several honors for his work promoting civil rights and equality, before leaving the U.S. to become a citizen of Ghana, where he died just before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

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    W.E.

    B
    DU
    BOIS
    BORN: FEBRUARY 23 ,
    1868
    D I E D : A U G U ST 2 7 , 1 9 6 3
    This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.
    Childhood
    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great
    Barrington, Massachusetts. W.E.B. Du Bois's mother was
    a domestic worker and his father was a barber. His father
    left the family when William was still very young. When
    his mother died in 1884, Du Bois was 16 years and
    penniless. Great Barrington is the largest town in
    Southern Berkshires, which is one of natural beauty,
    cultural wealth and historical firsts.
    Famous

    Du Bois was already well known as one of the foremost Black


    intellectuals of his era. The first Black American to earn a PhD
    from Harvard University, Du Bois published widely before
    becoming NAACP's director of publicity and research and
    starting the organization's official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.
    Pitfall

    Du Bois attacked Washington’s acceptance of racial segregation,


    arguing that this only encouraged whites to deny African
    Americans the right to vote and to undermine black pride and
    progress. Du Bois also criticized Washington’s approach at the
    Tuskegee Institute, a school for blacks that Washington founded,
    as an attempt “to educate black boys and girls simply as servants
    and underlings.”
    Famous Quotes
    • “We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say,
    ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in
    government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is
    civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.”
    • “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back
    again toward slavery.”
    • “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.”
    • “Beneath the Veil lay right and wrong, vengeance and love, and sometimes
    throwing aside the veil, a soul of sweet Beauty and Truth stood revealed.”
    Recognitions

    • The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Du Bois in 1920. [353]


    • In 1958, Du Bois was inducted into the Fisk University chapter of Phi Beta
    Kappa when he returned to campus to receive an honorary degree. [354]
    • In 1959, Du Bois was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by
    the USSR.
    • In 1969, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American
    Research, now part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American
    Research, was established at Harvard University.
    Fun Facts
    • HE WAS THE ONLY CHILD OF ALFRED DU BOIS AND MARY SILVINA
    BURGHARDT
    • HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EARN A PH.D. FROM
    HARVARD
    • HIS VISION OF EQUAL RIGHTS GAINED GROUND AFTER THE ATLANTA
    RACE RIOT
    • W.E.B. DU BOIS LEFT U.S. AND BECAME A CITIZEN OF GHANA
    • HE DIED A DAY BEFORE THE FAMOUS “I HAVE A DREAM” SPEECH
    Reference
    • Du Bois contributes to our specifically philosophical understanding of
    race and the race problem, because he treats these themes as objects of
    philosophical consideration—indeed, it is largely through an engagement
    with Du Bois’s work that many contemporary philosophers have come to
    appreciate race and race-related concerns as fruitful topics of
    philosophical reflection. Through his work in social philosophy, political
    philosophy, and the philosophy of art, Du Bois, for all intents and
    purposes, invented the field of philosophy and race, thereby unsettling
    and revising our views of the proper scope and aims of philosophical
    inquiry.

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