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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born an African American in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died an American African 95 years later in Accra, Ghana. His lifetime included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction to the unfinished dream of...
Du Bois was cut out to be a modern intellectual: conflicted, inconsistent and alienated from the conditions and customs of the race he strove to transform. To begin with, he was a Northerner and nearly as white as he was black. There were Dutch and French as well as West...
This was brave talk in a society where descendants of slaves had traditionally been admired for their muscles, not their mind. Du Bois' program for broadening education has been well documented, but Lewis demonstrates the extent to which the Old Man fought to make African Americans heirs to their own...
This year, the booklet contains two essays on race by W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Faye Chiu '95.
Then, the program's fate turned for good with the arrival in 1991 of Du Bois Professor of the humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah.