Du Bois
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But she never shirks from the hard facts of the Du Bois history, or that of blackness in this country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Du Bois famously observed that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.”
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
Du Bois, there is a vivid emotional resonance that ties it all together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Du Bois, with his pledge to erase America’s “color line” in pursuit of agrarian liberation.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2024
As a young professor at Wilberforce College in Ohio, Du Bois had initially praised Washington’s 1895 speech, telegraphing his congratulations “upon your phenomenal success at Atlanta—it was a word fitly spoken.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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