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Despite this lack of integration, Black students from Harvard and surrounding institutions formed an active community. Dubois, who in 1895 became the first Black man granted a Harvard Ph.D., wrote of an active "company who met and ate, danced and argued, and planned a new world." Dubois' active social life...
Dubois later became a major spokesman for the Black movement in the early 20th century, sharing much of the spotlight with another recipient of a Harvard degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington was the first Black man awarded an honorary degree by Harvard. His distinguished career as a spokesman for...
As surely as the outcome of the tenure review was a defeat for Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, the members said, it was a victory for the department's older stalwarts, who support of what Dubois Professor of History Nathan I. Huggins termed "the Harvard style of...
When a suggestion was floated to name the building, which houses the papers of W.E.B. Dubois, after the black separatist born in Great Barrington, the Black Student Union rose up in protest. To this day the library lacks a name.
The panel, which examined the changing parameters that determine what works of American literature will be considered classics, was moderated by Werner Sollors, professor of American literature and language and of Afro-American Studies. Barbara Johnson, professor of French and comparative literature, Nathan Huggins, DuBois Professor of History and Afro...