Of abraham lincoln, established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of web 23ois, april 23 february in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. Alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great
On lectures in history, Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson teaches a class on the philosophy of w. E. B. Dubois, an author and civil rights activist in the late 18th late 19th and early 20th centuries. He described his early life, role as an educator, and relationship with other activists of the time. This class is about an hour. Maurice jackson today we discuss the works of w. E. B dubois. We just entered africanamerican history month. Odson established this for three reasons. One was because of Frederick Douglass birthday, the birthday of abraham lincoln, who established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of w. E. B. Dubois, born february 23 in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. As we went to the hospital, i said, dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on George Washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, we will have a dubois baby. You can imagine what you would sa
Second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. His grandfather alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great barrington. His grandfather had some going back to hasty haiti, we just dont know. Some mixture, german somewhere along the line. When i asked him w
And worked on kennedys campaign. All of these people help make me the people that i am today. Youve a lot of people here at the National Book festival watching it right now. A bunch of young people here as well. What do you tell them . Their parents want to know. Thank you for being here. Stay in school get the best possible education that you can get be helpful, be optimistic and be happy. Dont get lost in the sea of despair. Here is the book. As the illustrator. Nominated a frat National Book award. This is again a book three representative lewis has written to others in graphic novel form. For longer conversation with congressman lewis. They sat down with him for three hours on her our indepth program. If you go to our website type and representative john lewis include the word book otherwise you will get all sorts of videos from the sea stand archives we sat down for three hours. You can put them together, you can put freemarket economics and your values together and your politics
Failing to africa and coming every african flight. Dragging them across the atlantic to work in the battlefields. In particular and of course in the caribbean in the middle at the 18th century when the thought was more valuable. Of course, the story shifted. The hope in conjunction with the caribbean because the africans outnumber the europeans at a rate 10 to one or 22 when the caribbeans create fertile grounds for the rise of slave revolts, which is not only jeopardizing the investments, but a lot of slave owners and their families. This of course released a retrenchment on the mainland, where the ratio is a much more favorable to slavery but that does not necessarily save because in 1739 in seven to 12 you have the results of the famed manhattan. Recently spearheaded by angolan who not only many of them speech portuguese, but many of them were actually roman catholic. They were trying to get to spanish florida at that time controlled by same and there is a direct collaboration betwe