Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

* Du Bois, W. E. B.

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

Du Bois, American civil rights leader ( d. 1963 )

* 17th century – The French Prophets: The Camisards also spoke sometimes in languages that were unknown: " Several persons of both Sexes ," James Du Bois of Montpellier recalled, " I have heard in their Extasies pronounce certain words, which seem'd to the Standers-by, to be some Foreign Language.

" These utterances were sometimes accompanied by the gift of interpretation exercised, in Du Bois ' experience, by the same person who had spoken in tongues.

* John Brown ( biography ), a 1909 biography written by W. E. B Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown

Du Bois, American civil rights activist ( b. 1868 )

Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard University.

Du Bois, American civil rights leader ( d. 1963 )

Du Bois, who demanded a stronger tone of protest for advancement of civil rights needs.

Du Bois advocated activism to achieve civil rights.

Du Bois supported him, but they grew apart as Du Bois sought more action to remedy disenfranchisement and lower education.

After their falling out, Du Bois and his supporters referred to Washington's speech as the " Atlanta Compromise " to express their criticism that Washington was too accommodating to white interests.

Du Bois wanted blacks to have the same " classical " liberal arts education as whites did, along with voting rights and civic equality.

The source of division between Du Bois and Washington was generated by the differences in how African Americans were treated in the North versus the South.

Along with Du Bois, he partly organized the " Negro exhibition " at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where photos, taken by his friend Frances Benjamin Johnston, of Hampton Institute's black students were displayed.

Du Bois: The origins of a bitter intellectual battle ," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ( 46 ) ( Winter, 2004 ) in JSTOR

* Cary D. Wintz, African American Political Thought, 1890 – 1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Randolph ( 1996 ).

* Washington & Du Bois at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

William E. Du Bois ’ Pledges of History ... ( 1846 ) describes the cabinet.

Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868 – 1919 by David Levering Lewis

Kunming suffered at the hands of rebel leader Du Wenxiu, the Sultan of Dali, who attacked and besieged the city several times between 1858 and 1868.

Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle ( 1852-1854 ), L ' Idée de Dieu ( 1864 ), Le Matérialisme et la science ( 1868 ), Le Pessimisme au XIX ' siècle ( 1878 ), Jours d ' épreuve ( 1872 ), M. Littré et le positivisme ( 1883 ), George Sand ( 1887 ), Mélanges et portraits ( i888 ), La Philosophie de Goethe ( 2nd ed., 1880 ).

In Jean Joseph Gaume's Life of the Good Thief ( Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882 ), Saint Augustine said ; the thief said to Jesus, the child: " O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day.

Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, located on where present-day Route 23 would run.

Du Bois ( February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963 ), sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author, and editor

Du Bois ( 1868 – 1963 ), Pan-Africanist leader and scholar

Du Bois ( William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1868 – 1963 ), American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author

* 1989 – Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player

* 1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.

* 1938 – John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer ( d. 2010 )

* 1037 – The Jiyun, a Chinese rime dictionary, is published by Ding Du and expanded by later scholars.

* 1044 – The Wujing Zongyao military manuscript is completed by Chinese scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide.

* March 9 – Du Yuanying, chancellor under the Tang Dynasty

* December 13 – Du Hongjian, chancellor under the Tang Dynasty

* December 14 – Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator ( d. 1839 )

* July 7 – Pernette Du Guillet, poet ( b. c. 1520 )

The centrality of a father in this novel matches Balzac's own position – not only as mentor to his troubled young secretary, Jules Sandeau, but also the fact that he had ( most likely ) fathered a child, Marie-Caroline, with his otherwise-married lover, Maria Du Fresnay.

** Keely and Du – Jane Martin

* Maxime Du Camp ( 1822 – 1894 ), author

" William Du Bois ( 1903 – 1997 ) called the book " a first rate tour de force that is well worth the attention of every thoughtful citizen in this age of anxiety.

In ancient China there was Sunshu Ao ( 6th century BC ), Ximen Bao ( 5th century BC ), Du Shi ( circa 31 AD ), Zhang Heng ( 78-139 AD ), and Ma Jun ( 200-265 AD ), while medieval China had Su Song ( 1020-1101 AD ) and Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

* Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series ( 2000 – 4 ) series by Darren Shan.

* Route Du Rhum – established in 1978 and starting in November, this race happens every four years.

* Mini Transat – started in 1977, this is a singlehanded race held every two years that crosses the Atlantic on a similar route as the Route Du Rhum.

Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919 – 1963 by David Levering Lewis

A notice appeared in the April 2, 1881 morning edition of the Austin Statesman: “ Du Pre – Spend Saturday, April 2, at Du Pre, on International and Great Northern Railroad, fourteen and a half miles from Austin.

* Circuses and Bread ( Factory Benelux FACD 154, 1986 – reissued in 1993 with new artwork on Les Disques Du Crepuscule, titled " Bread and Circuses ") ( Reissued on LTM in 2008 with original artwork and 9 ' bonus ' tracks LTMCD 2510 )( No. 11 )

* Du und das Leben – Eine moderne Biologie für Jedermann.