W E B DuBois The Great Black Historian

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS;[February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Earlier, Du Bois had risen to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. 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 chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemic, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread prejudice and racism in the United States military.
Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, is a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus, Black Reconstruction in America, challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era. Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life. He opens The Souls of Black Folk with the central thesis of much of his life's work: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."
His 1940 autobiography Dusk of Dawn is regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published two other life stories, all three containing essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament. The United States Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
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Love Black history

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❤Black History

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Many African Americans were ignored, silenced, criminalized, etc, who would have been great ambassadors for this republic and help her live up to her ideals.

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The differences in thought & ideology between Booker T. Washington & this man we see repeated by Martian Luther King & Malcolm X, can’t be ignored for the way Melanated Americans, the descendants of slaves are still divided along the same lines. One can’t help but wonder how much further along we’d be as a people if Washington & Dubois and MLKing and Malcolm X had been able to come together. I find it interesting how much groups like the Nation of Islam, Hebrew Israelites, the Black Panther party & BLM reflect Dubois’ activists ideology & Marxist’s leanings. The passage of time seems to have borne out which of these great thought leaders had a better grasp on the way forward for the Race. And the fact that after his visit to Mecca, Malcolm X began leaning more towards MLKing’s belief’s and teachings seems to confirm that the more radical & militant forms of protesting, activism and the acts of terrorism & violence like rioting and violence that are perpetrated, especially when they are against our own, in our own communities has done nothing to secure for us the respect and the rights were were seeking. What Malcolm X was learning and what MLKing was advocating was that the fight for rights” was not just for civil rights for America’s Melanated descendants of slaves but that in the broader context of human rights, were better served. The constant drawing of & focus on race has made it almost impossible to follow the model of other ethic minorities and cultures who have immigrated to this country since the passage of the Civil Rights amendment created a climate in which they could prosper. As the descendants of the slaves whose labor build America, we are still suffering from the lack of a plan on how to move forward with the freedoms we’ve gained….first it was our ancestors, in the wake of The Emancipation Proclamation and now us in the wake of Civil Rights. We’re still doing more protesting & destroying of ourselves, our families snd our communities than we ate building and strengthening them and building an economic base that can support legacies of generational wealth. Like other immigrant minority groups do.

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There seems to be quite a bit of opinion and speculation about Du Bois, his life, and writing. Each person in the documentary appears to have formulated thoughts about the man's intention without offering very much in the form of verification. This is a good video for basic understanding, but more research is encouraged.