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 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.

In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.

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

This shortage of natural rubber prompted the chemists at American companies such as Du Pont and Standard Oil, and researchers at Harvard University, to strive to develop factory-made alternatives-artificial rubber for all uses, including vehicle tires, tank tracks, gaskets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing.

Du Bois, held its first meeting on American soil on the campus of Storer College, now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

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

However, Le Garage Du Monde was " considered too far over-the-edge for the American youth gospel market and never released ".

It also houses a small museum which used to be the Hypolite Du Puis house, the Henry Hastings Sibley house, the Faribault house, and buildings associated with the American Fur Company, all dating from the 1830s.

Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican heroin smuggling operation, British Secret Service operative, James Bond is asked by Junius Du Pont, a rich American businessman ( whom he briefly met and gambled with in Casino Royale ), to watch Auric Goldfinger, with whom Du Pont is playing Canasta in order to discover if he is cheating.

Other bands that have mentioned Cheap Trick as an inspiration and influence include Gin Blossoms, Urge Overkill, Pearl Jam, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, Everclear, Extreme, Enuff Z ’ Nuff, Green Day, American Hi-Fi, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Fountains of Wayne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, OK Go, Terrorvision, Kings of Leon, Husker Du, Slipknot, Jet, and the Wildhearts.

* Karp, Walter, " Henry Francis Du Pont And The Invention Of Winterthur ", American Heritage, April / May 1983

Du Bois, this exhibition aimed at showing Afro-Americans ' positive contributions to American society.

* The Du Pont family fortune began in 1803, but they became an extraordinarily wealthy family by selling gunpowder during the American Civil War.

Du Bois, an American civil rights activist most known for being one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909.

The three-day gathering, starting on August 15, 1906 at the campus of Storer College ( now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park ), discussed how to secure civil rights for African Americans and was later described by Du Bois as " one of the greatest meetings that American Negroes ever held.

* February 21 – Sisters Jane and Elizabeth Du Bois, daughters of the American consul at Naples, Italy, Coert du Bois, force open the door of a Hillman Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide airliner in flight and jump to their deaths.

Throughout the Du Bois years The Crisis published the work of many young African American writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press.

Du Bois, writer / civil rights activist

Du Bois, John Hope, Fredrick L. McGhee, and William Monroe Trotter met at the Fort Erie Hotel in Fort Erie, Ontario, opposite Buffalo, New York, to discuss full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood.

Du Code Napoléon au Code civil du Bas Canada », Revue juridique Thémis, Montréal, n. 43-1, 2009, pp. 2 – 49.

Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored such then-young civil rights stalwarts as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks and Bob Moses.

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

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

When Du Xing hears that Li Ying has resigned from his civil career, he follows suit and returns home, where he enjoys a luxurious life until the end of his days.

Du later served as imperial attendant ( 給事中, Geishizhong ), but later left civil service to observe a mourning period when his stepmother died.