If a "Ren-ais-sance man" is - one with a stinging wit, an impeccable education, a profound knowledge of human history and culture, a "gentleman's" good taste in art, music and theater, and a philosopher's vision for a better humanity, then for Black people, that person would be...
...W.E.B. DU BOIS was born on February 23, 1868 as William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, three years after the end of the American Civil War. With his given birth name, and the name of a state like that, he was destined for greatness. He did not disappoint. Du Bois was a writer, scholar, sociologist, historian, Civil Rights activist, and Pan Africanist
Du Bois entered Fisk University in 1885 at the age of 17, and was granted sophomore status. He graduated from Fisk in 1888 and in 1891 he graduated from Harvard University, becoming the first Black man to earn a Ph.d degree, not to mention that from 1891-93 he did some graduate work at the University of Berlin in Germany. In the years to follow, Du Bois became a professor of sociology, history and economics at Atlanta University.
Du Bois was a prolic author. The amount of work he produced is so voluminous that it is estimated that his Annotated Bibliography of writings in magazines, journals, books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, leaflets, and manifestos, would balance out to him writing something scholarly every twelve days of his life for over fifty years.
W.E.B. Du Bois died on midnight of August 27, 1963, the evening before the historic March On Washington. He was 93 years of age. Du Bois is regarded as one of America's greatest intellectuals.
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His various overall accomplishments in other walks of life are so great they could not even be mentioned in a blog of this size and scope.
To learn more, please Google-search his name and prepare to be amazed.
OH! BY THE WAY...DID I MENTION THAT IN 1909 HE WAS ONE OF THE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP)???
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