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W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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Also known as William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, WEB Du Bois, W.E.B. Du Bois, W.E.B. du Bois

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American male author who lived from February 23, 1868, to August 27, 1963. His literary output includes works such as *Some notes on Negro crime particularly in Georgia*, *The Negro Problem*, *The college-bred Negro*, and *An ABC of color*. He is associated with five works according to Crossref records and has 306 works listed on Open Library.

Du Bois is the source of several notable quotes, including “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line” and “I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.” He is referenced by 4,644 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
23 Feb 1868
Died
27 Aug 1963
Works
306

Top works

  • Some notes on Negro crime particularly in Georgia
  • The Negro Problem
  • The college-bred Negro
  • "On this first day of October ..."
  • An ABC of color

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1868-02-23
Active to
1963-08-27
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
57
Total plays
412

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪs/ February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an intellectual leader of the black community in America. In multiple roles as civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. Biographer David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism—scholarship <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/W.+E.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

    · 2020 · cited 21,677x

  2. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study

    · 2020 · cited 21,451x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

  4. An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time

    · 2020 · cited 8,423x

  5. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,264x

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Quotes

  • “It has long been the belief of modern men that the history of Europe covers the essential history of civilization, with unimportant exceptions; that the progress of the white [Europeans] has been along the one natural, normal path to the highest possible human culture.”
  • “There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.”
  • “There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
  • “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
  • “I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”
  • “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

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Encyclopedic overview

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He was a professor at Atlanta University and over the course of his life wrote many books and articles. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.

Du Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the talented tenth, a concept under the umbrella of racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chance for advanced education to develop their leadership. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois used his position in the NAACP to respond to racist incidents.

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