du Bois
Speech parts
1. du Bois - Noun
2. Du Bois - Proper noun
Meaning
United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
In general, the Negro was kept out of the trade union movement. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1913: "The net result of all this has been to convince the American Negro that his greatest enemy is not the employer who robs him, but his fellow white workingman."
Du Bois is also known for his work as an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist and professor at Atlanta University.
It is a way, Du Bois says in his prelude to the body of the poem, to deal with “the dilemma” an African American experiences in the awkward position of being cautiously regarded during an enthusiastic public singing of the patriotic song.
Private Augustus Du Bois marched forward at daybreak on June 3, 1864, along with hundreds of other members of the 7th New York Heavy Artillery regiment to a thin belt of timber a mile south of the key road junction of Cold Harbor.
In 1935, distressed at how deceitfully America’s Reconstruction period was being taught, Du Bois assailed the propaganda of the era.