W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS;^[1] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) daa nyƐla America sociologist, socialist, historian, ni Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

Bi daa dƆƔi o la Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois daa zoola tiŋ shƐli din daa mali ninsalisili ka taƔiri n deeri niriba. O ni daa n naagi shikuru tuma Harvard University, ka o daa n nyƐ piligu gbansabinli Ŋun deeigi doctorate, Du Bois daa duhila zuƔusaa nti lebigi kpɛma n zaŊti Niagara Movement, laƔingu shɛli din daa bŋi n ti gbansabila ban bƆri equal rights. Du Bois mini o nyaandoliba daa zaƔisila Atlanta Compromise. Din lahi pahi, Du Bois daa kuli zala viɛnyeliga nbƆri full civil rights ka di daai kpaŊsi siasa polo, binshɛli o ni daa tiehi ni dini liebigi African-American intellectual elite. O daa bolila laƔingu maa the talented tenth, lahabali din yaƔili bƐni n pahi racial uplift, ka o tiehi ni gbansabila ban nyɛ Amɛrika nima daa bƆrila soya ni bi karim shikuru n chaŊ tooni ka lahi kpaŊsi bi toontali polo.

Du Bois daa nyɛla ŋun pahi ka bi pili the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1909 yuuni. Du Bois daa zaŋla o toontali di bƐ NAACP ni o zaŋ taƔi o niriba ka chɛ gaŋbu gaŊbu . First World War maa ni daa nnaai, o daa chaŊla Pan-African Congresses, ka daa lahi n saƔi nti socialism, n lƐbi professor nti Atlanta University. Second World War ni daa nnai, o daa tumdimi nbƆri suhudoo ni lɛbgimsim, ka daa lahi jɛndi the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.

Du Bois daa nyƐla Ŋun saburi bukunima. O daa saibirimi zaŋ chaŊ ninsalinim gaŊbu gaŊbu polo, din daa tori jina n kpa ninsalinim bun n ku, Jim Crow zalkpana, ni gaŋbu gaŊbu din bɛ tuma nim ni. O tuma maa daa lahi jƐndila niriba ban bɛ luƔili kam, balintee gbansabila ni Asians. O daa nyƐla proponent nti Pan-Africanism ka lahi sƆŊ n laƔim laƔingu zaŊ chaŊ Pan-African congress ni di tuhi nbo maŊ sulinsi nti African Colonies ka taƔba ni Europeanim yaa . Du Bois daa goya pam n chaŊ Europe, Africa ni Asia. O tuma collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, nyƐla din nyƐ kundi nti African-American literature; ka o 1935 magnum opus, Black Reconstruction in America,daa kpaŊsi o tuma zaŊ chaŊ orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life. O 1940 autobiography Dusk of Dawn is regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology. In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism and was sympathetic to socialist causes

↑ Lewis, David Levering (1993). W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868–1919. New York City: Henry Holt and Co. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4668-4151-2. [Du Bois] would unfailingly insist upon the 'correct' pronunciation of his surname. 'The pronunciation of my name is Due Boyss, with the accent on the last syllable,' he would patiently explain to the uninformed.

[1] Lewis, David Levering (1993). W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868–1919. New York City: Henry Holt and Co. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4668-4151-2. [Du Bois] would unfailingly insist upon the 'correct' pronunciation of his surname. 'The pronunciation of my name is Due Boyss, with the accent on the last syllable,' he would patiently explain to the uninformed.

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