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Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to Alfred and Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois. [3] Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington and had long owned land in the state.
Yolande's daughter, Du Bois Williams, married Arthur Edward McFarlane, Sr., and had a son, the first male born in the Du Bois family since Burghardt in 1897 (that child had died tragically at 18 months of age and was the topic of a chapter in W.E.B. Du Bois' most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk). Arthur Edward McFarlane, II, was born ...
DuBois won Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs in 1999 and 2001. DuBois, along with the other cast members of Good Times, received the Impact Icon Award at the 2006 TV Land Awards. [31] In 2000, DuBois served as grand marshal for the North Amityville Community Parade and Festival Day in Amityville, New York. [32]
Dubois (/ d ʊ ˈ b w ɑː / duu-BWAH; also spelled DuBois or Du Bois, from the French of the woods/forest) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include:
The groundbreaking for the new W.E.B. DuBois Academy on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The $62 million building will serve middle and high school boys who learn from an Afrocentric curriculum. The ...
Caroline Dubois and her brother Daniel are taking sibling rivalries to new levels. The undefeated Olympian (10-0, 5 KOs) makes the first defense of her WBC lightweight title when she faces ...
Earning graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, Woodson then became the second African American, after W. E. B. Du Bois, to obtain a PhD degree from Harvard University. Woodson is the only person whose parents were enslaved in the United States to obtain a PhD in history. [6]
Born in 1980, Macaulay Culkin was the first member of the Culkin family to become famous. His film career began in the late 1980s with Rocket Gibraltar and Uncle Buck, but it was 1990’s Home ...