W.E.B.+DuBois

W.E.B. DuBois: A dedicated and well educated radical man, DuBois inspired many people with his defense of freedom and his devotion to attacking inequality. Although having the title as a radical, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote excellent comments about him, including that “His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people….The degree to which he succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of man.” As a Pan-Africanist he was notably remembered by few who met to the standards of his intellect. However, many people feared that he had the ability to produce a revolution made up of the subjugated people in the world.(1)

He was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts which had about 50 African Americans out of a population of about 5000 people.In his productive early live he became the local correspondent for the //New York Globe// at age 15. His natural gifts and motivation to give his race a helping hand caused him to wish to go to Harvard, and although he was trapped in a terrible financial state, his family and scholarships assisted him in and sent him to Fisk College. At Fisk college he learned all he could about his race and in later years he completed a draft of his dissertation. (1.) This sprouted multiple books to be written and his education and views of the world seemed to grow immensely.  DuBois's writings fall under the title of his best accomplishments and the main way he stood out from other African Americans. His writings mostly tried to motivate blacks to have confidence in themselves and to help them learn how to accomplish things. He believed that racism and discriminatory acts against blacks should cause the African American community around the world to stand up and fight. Through the education of his readers Dubois believed that he could drastically affect this subject. He organized the First Annual Pan-African Congress, The niagra Movement and he helped create the NAACP for African American civil rights in 1909 to ensure the equality of all African Americans. Dubois wrote 22 books, 5 novels and 4 academic journals in his life and was the first African American to recieve a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the year 1985.

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