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Printable version; Page information ... W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963 Abstract ... This file has been identified as being free of known ...
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At the end of the game, the defeated player turned around to shake Burghardt's hand, telling him he was the greatest human being he had ever met. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1986, President Reagan shared the same story at a school in Washington, D.C. [5] Reagan and Burqhardt remained friends, many decades later. [3] [6]
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The book contained Du Bois's feminist essay, "The Damnation of Women", which was a tribute to the dignity and worth of women, particularly black women. [188] Concerned that textbooks used by African-American children ignored black history and culture, Du Bois created a monthly children's magazine, The Brownies' Book. Initially published in 1920 ...
Du Bois was born Mary Silvina Burghardt in 1831 to Othello Burghardt and Sarah Lampman in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She had African, Dutch, and English ancestry. Her family were part of a small free black community in Great Barrington that had long been landowners in Massachusetts. Her grandfather was Jack Burghardt.
The trilogy of experimental novels is composed of The Soft Machine (1961, revised 1966 and 1968), The Ticket That Exploded (1962, revised 1967) and Nova Express (1964). Like Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine derived in part from The Word Hoard, a number of manuscripts Burroughs wrote mainly in Tangier, between 1954 and 1958.
Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes is a series of historical novels by American writer William T. Vollmann about the conflicts between the natives of North America and settlers, governments, and others. Each volume focuses on a different episode in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological ...