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.

Eventually he joined Du Vergier at his country home near Bayonne, and spent some years teaching at the bishop's college.

They were joined by Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, the secretary of the King of Poland ( and father of the founder of the DuPont company ).

Du Bois Clubs, named after one of the original founders of the NAACP, who joined the CPUSA in 1961.

Ms Heather Du Quesnay ( Chief Executive of English Schools Foundation ( ESF ), Mr Chris Erving ( Vice Chairman of SIS School Council ) and Ms Gabrielle Sanchez ( Year 12 student and winner of the Atrium Logo design competition ) all joined Mr Silverthorne in the curtain opening ceremony of the John Wray Atrium plaque.

Returning to England in 1911, Tempest joined a star-studded cast for Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, also starring Arthur Bourchier, C. Hayden Coffin, Lily Elsie, George Grossmith, Jr., Charles Hawtrey, Cyril Maude, Gerald Du Maurier, Gertie Millar, Edmund Payne, Courtice Pounds, Violet Vanbrugh and Arthur Williams, among others.

Du Prez joined Modern Romance ( band ) during the early 1980s and remained with them throughout their most successful years.

Irénée's partner, Pierre Bauday and son-law-law, Ferdinand Bauday, joined the business in 1813, and it became known as Du Pont, Bauday & Co.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

This Court agreed with the trial court `` that considerations of price, quality and service were not overlooked by either Du Pont or General Motors ''.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.

Christiana Securities Company and Delaware Realty & Investment Company, major stockholders in Du Pont, and the stockholders of Delaware were dealt with specially by provisions requiring the annual sale by a trustee, again over a ten-year period, of Du Pont's General Motors stock allocable to them, as well as any General Motors stock which Christiana and Delaware owned outright.

Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware were to be prohibited to have any director or officer in common with General Motors, and vice versa ; ;

It argued, inter alia, that a divestiture order would severely depress the market value of the stock of both General Motors and Du Pont, with consequent serious loss and hardship to hundreds of thousands of innocent investors, among them thousands of small trusts and charitable institutions ; ;

The work of Fonds Reine Elisabeth pour l'Assistance Medicale aux Indigenes Du Congo Belge ( FOREAMI ) has special interest with respect to demography.

In September 1817 at Fort Daer ( Pembina ) Dickson met the noble lord whom, with the help of a band of Sioux, he escorted to Prairie Du Chien.

Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.

Couperin also turns up along with some lesser-known contemporaries on a disk called Musique Francaise Du 18e Siecle ( BAM LD 060 ).

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

By 24: 00 only Tonnant remained engaged, as Commodore Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars continued his fight with Majestic and fired on Swiftsure when the British ship moved within range.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

He also allied with known criminals like Du Yuesheng for political and financial gains.

There had also been other instances of disobedience prior to this, according to the official Du Parcq report into the incident such as a model prisoner attacking a popular guard with a razor blade and rough treatment of a prisoner being removed to solitary.

militissa ), Du Cange notes that still in his day ( 17th c .), the female canons of the canonical monastery of St. Gertrude in Nivelles ( Brabant ), after a probation of 3 years, are made knights ( militissae ) at the altar, by a ( male ) knight called in for that purpose, who gives them the accolade with a sword and pronounces the usual words.

The oratorio, called Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), was commissioned to be part of the festival called Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, in June 2007, and was written / scored by Idle and John Du Prez, who also worked with Idle on Spamalot.

In Du " Cubisme " Metzinger and Gleizes explicitly related the sense of time to multiple perspective, giving symbolic expression to the notion of ‘ duration ’ proposed by the philosopher Henri Bergson according to which life is subjectively experienced as a continuum, with the past flowing into the present and the present merging into the future.