Du Bois Students at Fisk
1 2018-06-04T02:16:35-07:00 Maureen Gray ab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b 19701 1 WEB Du Bois and fellow Fisk students plain 2018-06-04T02:16:36-07:00 Maureen Gray ab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3bThis page is referenced by:
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The Education of a Life Long Learner
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W.E.B. Du Bois experienced Jim Crow for the first time when he arrived at Fisk University, an hbcu, in Nashville, Tennessee in 1885.Between semesters, he taught at a primitive Appalachian school where he was shocked by the dire poverty African Americans suffered. He became obsessed with the race problem in America. He continued graduate studies at Harvard, joined a study-abroad program at the University of Berlin, finally returning to Boston in 1895 to receive a PhD from Harvard, the first African American to do so. When white universities shunned his applications despite his stellar credentials, Du Bois accepted a professorship at Atlanta University teaching sociology and directing Publications, the school journal of Negro life.
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Du Bois' Youth
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Though Du Bois originally hailed Booker T. Washington's speech at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, he was the person that named it the Atlanta Compromise speech. By 1900, Du Bois became one of Washington's most outspoken critic. W.E.B. Du Bois was born to mulatto parents in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1868. His family had been free for over a century and his youth was rarely marred severe prejudice. He attended white schools in Massachusetts and his superior test scores should have admitted him to the best universities. Unfortunately, most were barred to him because of his race. He experienced Jim Crow for perhaps the first time when he arrived at Fisk University, an hbcu, in Nashville, Tennessee in 1885. While there, he taught school at a primitive Appalachian school where he was shocked at the dire poverty African Americans suffered. He became obsessed with the race problem in America. He continued graduate studies at Harvard, joined a study-abroad program at the University of Berlin, finally returning to Boston in 1895 to receive a PhD from Harvard, the first African American to do so. When white universities shunned his applications despite his stellar credentials, he accepted a professorship at Atlanta University teaching sociology and directing Publications, the school journal of Negro life.
