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 Pont would be enjoined from having as a director, officer, or employee anyone who was simultaneously an officer or employee of General Motors, and no director, officer, or employee of Du Pont could serve as a director of General Motors without court approval.

Du Boulay retired in 1924 and was replaced by M. B. Williamson who served until his death in 1939.

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.

One of the masters of the form was Du Fu, who wrote during the Tang Dynasty ( 8th century ).

Writing in 1933, Milo Milton Quaife identified a French immigrant to Canada, Pierre Dandonneau, who acquired the title " Sieur de Sable " and whose descendants were known by both the names Dandonneau and Du Sable.

On the eve of the Nationalist attack, Wang Shouhua, who was both the head of the CCP Labour Committee and the Chairman of the General Labour Committee, accepted a dinner invitation from " Big-eared Du " ( a Shanghai gangster ) and was strangled after he arrived.

Towards the end of 1830, Gautier began to frequent meetings of Le Petit Cénacle Little Upper Room, a group of artists who met in the studio of Jehan Du Seigneur.

Unlike the two previous albums, which were produced with Danish producer Joshua, En plats i solen is produced with Swedish producer Stefan Boman who worked with the band on Du & jag döden ( 2005 ).

( Thomas Francis was given the supreme command only because of his birth ; another French general, Du Plessis Praslin, noted a few years later that French marshals would only serve under someone who was superior to them in social rank, and Thomas, with his blood relationship to the French and Spanish royal families, was the only candidate.

( Thomas was given the supreme command only because of his birth ; another French general, Du Plessis Praslin, noted a few years later that French marshals would only serve under someone who was superior to them in social rank, and Thomas, with his blood relationship to the French and Spanish royal families, was the only candidate.

Du Guesclin was captured after a memorable resistance, and ransomed by Charles V, who considered him invaluable.

In the field of juvenile and young adult literature, Darren Shan wrote a twelve-book series ( The Saga of Darren Shan ) about a boy who becomes a vampire's assistant, beginning with Cirque Du Freak ( 2000 ) and ending with Sons of Destiny ( 2006 ).

The song was already published in several song books and sung with " Du gamla, Du friska ", but a priest who had known Dybeck got the opportunity to tell the singer most associated with the song, opera singer Carl Fredrik Lundqvist, about the change in the year 1900.

The Holy Du ' a is the obligatory prayer recited five times a day, as described in the Qur ' an: " And establish regular prayers at the two ends of the day and at the approaches of the night: For those things, that are good remove those that are evil: Be that the word of remembrance to those who remember ( their Lord ):" The Holy Du ' a is read in the Arabic language.

Although St Johns is an established village, people who reside in St Johns have a Du Quoin ( a very nearby town ) street address.

In addition, the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building is a concert venue named after the famous cellist who was an honorary fellow of the college.

According to town lore, the name Du Pre came from the postmaster of the nearby Mountain City, W. W. Haupt, who pleaded with railroad officials, “ Do, pray, give us a depot .”

Du Bois lived in the town until he was seventeen.

In his early childhood ( 1859 – 1864 ), he lived in Bruges where his father was appointed Substitut Du Procureur Du Roi.

He lived in an Art Deco-style apartment block – Du Cane Court, in Balham, south-west London – the largest such under one roof in Europe in the 1930s.