1. Birth Birth W.E.B. Du Bois Date of birth is February 23, 1868 Parents:Mother “Mary Silvina Burghardt DuBois

2. FACTS Du Bois’ family background was complex and no doubt helped shape his perspective on race His father was born in Haiti and had some French background; his great grandmother Elizabeth Freeman was a slave who sued to earn her freedom, an action that contributed to the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts

3. Facts continued  Du Bois was one of the founders of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights group that eventually developed into the NAACP  Du Bois investigated many possible solutions to the race problem in America, including socialism. He was given the Lenin Peace Prize (a Soviet analogue to the Nobel Prize) in 1959 and joined the Communist Party two years later

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5. Smoke SONG LYRICS I am the Smoke King I am black! I am swinging in the sky, I am wringing worlds awry; I am the thought of the throbbing mills, I am the soul of the soul-toil kills, Wraith of the ripple of trading rills;.

6. Famous Quotes Belive in life ! Always human beings will live and progress to greater Broder and fuller live To stimulate widly weak and unrained minds is to play with mightly fires

7. Speeches Never before in the modern age has a great and civilized folk threatened to adopt so cowardly a creed in the treatment of its fellow-citizens born and bred on its soil. Stripped of verbiage and subterfuge and in its naked nastiness the new American creed says: Fear to let black men even try to rise lest they become the equals of the white. And this is the land that professes to follow Jesus Christ. The blasphemy of such a course is only matched by its cowardice. In detail our demands are clear and unequivocal. First, we would vote; with the right to vote goes everything: Freedom, manhood, the honor of your wives, the chastity of your daughters, the right to work, and the chance to rise, and let no man listen to those who deny this..

8. Major Events In W.E.B Dubois Life Du Bois’s father left town when Du Bois was young, and Du Bois and his mother were poor. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, was an editor, historian, sociologist, novelist, civil rights leader, socialist, and pan- Africanist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois studied at Fisk University in Nashville, Harvard University (B.A. 1890, M.A. 1891, Ph. D. 1896), and the University of Berlin. He taught at Wilberforce College in Ohio, and then, in 1897, began teaching at Atlanta University.

9. Major events continued ● Du Bois's experience in the South caused him to reject the accommodationist methods of Booker T Washington, and to press for public protest against racial violence and discrimination. ●. He advocated the development of an intellectual elite, which he called the "talented tenth," of African Americans to provide leadership for the race, and argued for an aggressive strategy toward black integration into American political and economic life

10. Death ● W.E.B. Du Bois Date of death is August 27, 1963 ● Du Bois died in his own home town of MA Accra, Ghanna.

11. WEBSITES ● Wiki Answers ● Google.com ● Poetry Foundation.org ● Think exist. Com /Quotes

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13. Adult Life W.E.B. Dubois is most famous for the founding the Niagara Movement in 1905 and co-founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. He was one of the most important leaders of African-American protest in the United States In the ealy 1900's he became the leading black oponent of racial discrimination. He opposed the African-American educator Booker T. Washington, who believed that black people could advance faster through hard work than by demands for equal rights. DuBois believed that black people should speak out constantly against discrimination. His most famous books are "The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and "The Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois" (1968).

14. Adult Life Continued  The accomplishments that W.E.B DuBois is known for are his work in founding the NAACP, su ch as An American civil rights activist, public intellectual, Pan-Africanist, professor of sociology, historian, writer, and editor  The achievements that W.E.B DuBois is known for Dubois was one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909 and left Atlanta University to be the director of research and the editor of Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. At the turn of the century, DuBois had been a supporter of black capitalism but by 1905 he was drawn to socialism and Marxism. His life was a gradual drift to the left. Sometimes his thinking held a degree of black separatist and nationalism. He had free reign over the content of Crisis but became more and more dissatisfied over the politics of the NAACP. Its board of directors had, from its founding

15. Awards that W.E.B DuBois got  W.E.B DuBois had gotten the Spingarn Medal from NAACP, in 1932; elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1943; Lenin International Peace Prize, 1958; Knight Commander of the Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption conferred by the Liberian Government; Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary conferred by President Coolidge  LL.D. from Harvard University, 1930, and Atlanta University, 1938; Litt.D. from Fisk University, 1938; L.H.D. Wilberforce University, 1940; honorary degrees from Morgan State College, University of Berlin, and Charles University

16. LATER IN LIFE W.E.B DuBois had DuBois wanted African- Americans encouraged to succeed in the arts and sciences It has also been one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois criticized Booker T. Washington.

17. Events surrounding w.e.b dubois death  The walk / the march on washington had surrounded w.e.b dubois life

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