Talk:W. E. B. Du Bois

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Dubois is also a Philosopher[edit]

Autobiography of Dubois 1960s

By his own admission one of the subjects he took and completed was philosophy. 2603:8081:5000:1E66:2D03:DFDB:17F5:86AE (talk) 13:16, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disavowal of the Talented Tenth concept[edit]

Later in his life (1948 to be exact) Du Bois revised his belief in the "Talented Tenth" instead to be a more wide-spanning "Guiding Hundreth" focused not on a Black Elite but instead Black unity with other minorities. The Talented Tenth as a concept emerged before his ideology was fully developed (he didn't become a communist until after the Russian Revolution), so it should probably be mentioned that his stance on the Talented Tenth concept drastically shifted in a more egalitarian socialist direction. Tom Nook himself (talk) 04:14, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2024[edit]

Du Bois did not attend Searles High School as stated in the entry (without citation). Instead, he attended Great Barrington High School as stated in the corrections section of this article: https://theberkshireedge.com/berkshire-hotel-project-at-former-searles-school-may-go-forward-this-year/ Du Bois would have been about 30 years old when Searles opened in 1898. Sgraulty (talk) 15:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please change "He graduated from the town's Searles High School." to "He graduated from Great Barrington High School in June 1884 at the age of 15" with the citations: https://www.duboisnhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DuBoisGBBrochureMap-1.pdf and https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois
Add in the image of his high school graduating class: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/66a9dc30-19f4-9e2b-e040-e00a18061c88 Sgraulty (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Not done for now: Given the three quality sources provided in-article as support for the high school graduation information, we should probably evaluate this proposed change by taking into account more sourcing than the two provided here (one is a pamphlet and the other is apparently a reprint of a different tertiary source, neither of which indicates where its information about his secondary schooling is coming from).
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--Pinchme123 (talk) 02:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have found more resources for his graduation from Great Barrington High School including a photo of his senior class, diploma and a letter her wrote to the students of Great Barrington High School indicating he graduated from there in 1884, all from the WEB Du Bois Papers collection of UMass Amherst. That collection contains additional primary sources indicating he graduated from Great Barrington High School. Separately, a collection at Fisk University, an article in The Atlantic, The Du Bois Center website, as well as an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy all indicate he graduated from Great Barrington High School.
I'm unable to do the work on the image at the moment, so will leave that for someone else or another time. Thank you. Sgraulty (talk) 03:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dating[edit]

If Du Bois was born in 1868, wouldn't all black people be free? 2601:249:1900:C3C0:2EFF:248C:9250:1D2 (talk) 11:18, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]