Topic: W.E.B. DuBois

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Crouch: The Malcolm X you don't know

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W.E.B. DuBois

William Edward Burghardt DuBois (W.E.B. DuBois ) was a prominent African-American social activist and intellectual during the period after the American Civil War . He wrote extensively about the plight of the black race in America following the abolition of slavery and ...
" William Edward burghardt Dubois(W.E.B.) was born February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and early on it was obvious that W.E.B. was going to show keen concern in the development of his race. Not less than 50 ...
America, under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson did not become involved in Great War in 1914. America in fact did not enter the war until it had been raging in Europe for three years. Then eventually President Wilson declared before congress ...
The Great Migration started a monumental population shift in America. The lighter-skinned, civil rights pioneer, W.E.B. DuBois called black nationalist, Marcus Garvey, a "gorilla" and a "con man". DuBois self-financed the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...