W.E.B DUBOIS By: Kendarius Tabb June 3,2015 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FACTS W.e.b Dubois grew up in a...
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W.E.B DUBOISBy: Kendarius Tabb
June 3,2015
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FACTS
W.e.b Dubois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. after
he graduated from Harvard he became the first African American to become to
earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at
Atlanta University.
He started the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People(NAACP) in 1909. W.e.b Dubois attended Fisk University a historical black
college Nashville, Tennessee. He went to that college from 1885-1888, 3 years.
He received a bachelors degree from fisk university, then he went to Harvard
University, but they did not accept his credits he got from fisk university. from
1888 to 1890, where he was strongly influenced by his professor William James.,
prominent in American philosophy.
GENERAL CAREER FACTS
W.e.b Dubois wrote a book called The Souls of Black Folk, he wrote the
book to talk about how black people were treated back then and how they
had to migrate from the south to the north because people houses had
crosses being burnt in their yards and others were being lynched from trees
and dying so he wrote a book about it.
ONE SPECIFIC WORK
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W.e.b Dubois influenced many black Americans by
writing books and writing quotes. When he wrote the
souls of black folk he talked about how the whites
did the blacks and some white folks but, mainly
black folks felt the same way he felt about the
situation.
VIDEOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOEED_MexI&feature=player_detailpage
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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SPEECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vKgMh3rMhLdE