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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 ...
W. E. B. Du Bois had already moved to the North before White enrolled, but Du Bois knew White's parents well. [15] Du Bois had taught two of White's older siblings at Atlanta University. [15] Du Bois and Walter White later disagreed about how best to gain civil rights for black people, but they shared a vision for the country.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
The W. E. B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite (or W. E. B. Du Bois Homesite) is a National Historic Landmark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commemorating an important location in the life of African American intellectual and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963). The site contains foundational remnants of the home of Du Bois's ...
Ronald’s sister, Harriet, stepped in to adopt Simone’s siblings Tevin and Ashley. The pair were raised in Cleveland, Ohio. As they grew up, the siblings found themselves facing some legal ...