One of the founders of the #NAACP , Dr. #WEBDuBois died #onthisday in 1963. #equalrights #sociologist #historian #civilrights #activist #author #writer #editor #AfricanAmerican #BlackHistory #TheSoulsofBlackFolk #TheCrisis #history #trivia
#candaceowens was not the first black person to know the #democrats were shady. Thatโs dumb. IM tired of uneducated people lying. And the uneducated taking lies as facts. Anyone who thinks that has no recollection of US history. Read a damn book. See the date below. #WEBDUBOIS
Taste the Difference! #weoutchea #gullah #geechee #webdubois #linguistics #language #french #english sunnmcheaux.com weoutcheamerch.com
Happy Birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois. Thank you for advancing Black student achievement. โค๏ธโ๐พ #og #Blacklove #webdubois #black #student #achievement #BlackTwitter
Read the #soulofblackfolks by #webdubois โ๏ธ I still have my disagreements with his position on Garvey. #brothahassan โค๏ธ๐ค๐
โCapitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.โ
-W.E.B Dubois, (February 23, 1868 โ August 27, 1963)
#WEBDubois
The young #AfricanAmerican intellectual #WEBDuBois moves to imperial #Germany in order to study at the University of #Berlin . โThis was the land where I first met white folk who treated me as a human being,โ he wrote. My #map of his travels. #GermanHistory #BLM
'There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.' -- sociologist, historian & civil rights activist #WEBDuBois , born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois OTD in Great Barrington, MA (1868-1963). R.I.P.
'Whither Now and Why' - Episode 207 of @InClasswithCarr with Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr) and @KarenHunter. A discussion on race, culture, and collective objectives. #InClasswithCarr #WEBDuBois
'We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.' -- sociologist William Edward Burghardt #WEBDuBois , born OTD in Great Barrington, MA (1868-1963).
Matt's Pick: W.E.B Du Bois Souls of Black Folk GN written by #webdubois with interiors by Paul Peart Smith published by #RutgersUniversityPress
rolandsmartin 'The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?' #WEBDuBois #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Brought to our world this day, 1868.
d. 27 Aug 1963
#WEBDuBois
Champion leader of Civil Rights, in the US and abroad. Sociologist, socialist, historian, author, activist; first Black American to earn a doctorate.
An indelible touch to humanity.
So glad I got to see the Cooper Hewitt exhibition, โDeconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 Worldโs Fair,โ which includes data visualizations that Du Bois created for the Paris Worldโs Fair #datavisualization #infographics #webdubois
feeling my twoness
these unreconciled strivings
on the color line
#Winter2023 #Haiku #GreatBooks #TheSoulsOfBlackFolk #WEBDuBois
