William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Biography and His Contribution for Community Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was an African-American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. W.E.B. Dubois was an intellectually gifted person and he is the first man of African descent to receive a PH.D from Harvard University.He wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He was the founding member of the Niagara movement. W.E.B. Du Bois was born and grew up in Great Barrington about fifty Negroes living in a town of some five thousand people. He identified himself as “mulatto.” In 1883, the story of his father’s desertion alerted him about racial discrimination. As a young Du Bois sensed that “some folks a few, even several, actually my brown skin a misfortune.”
Du Bois mother was Mary Silvina Burghardt (black) and his father was Alfred Du Bois (french origin); he was a mulatto born in Haiti, but with so little Negro ancestry that he could pass for white. Du Bois wrote about his father that his father had “run away from his own father and rioted and roamed, …show more content…
Du Bois was proud to be a Negro and, unlike some integrationists, he did not think that the solution to America’s major race problem lay in the disappearance of black people through assimilation, dispersion, and intermarriage. He insisted that “self-obliteration” was not “the highest end to which Negro blood dare aspire.” He urged African Americans to maintain their racial identity. “Their destiny,” he said, was “not a servile imitation of Anglo-Saxon culture, but a stalwart originality which shall unswervingly further Negro
Biography and His Contribution for Community Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was an African-American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. W.E.B. Dubois was an intellectually gifted person and he is the first man of African descent to receive a PH.D from Harvard University.He wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He was the founding member of the Niagara movement. W.E.B. Du Bois was born and grew up in Great Barrington about fifty Negroes living in a town of some five thousand people. He identified himself as “mulatto.” In 1883, the story of his father’s desertion alerted him about racial discrimination. As a young Du Bois sensed that “some folks a few, even several, actually my brown skin a misfortune.”
Du Bois mother was Mary Silvina Burghardt (black) and his father was Alfred Du Bois (french origin); he was a mulatto born in Haiti, but with so little Negro ancestry that he could pass for white. Du Bois wrote about his father that his father had “run away from his own father and rioted and roamed, …show more content…
Du Bois was proud to be a Negro and, unlike some integrationists, he did not think that the solution to America’s major race problem lay in the disappearance of black people through assimilation, dispersion, and intermarriage. He insisted that “self-obliteration” was not “the highest end to which Negro blood dare aspire.” He urged African Americans to maintain their racial identity. “Their destiny,” he said, was “not a servile imitation of Anglo-Saxon culture, but a stalwart originality which shall unswervingly further Negro