#WEB DuBois

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We had progress by poverty in the face of accumulating wealth, and that poverty was not simply the poverty of the slaves of Africa and the peons of Asia, but the poverty of the mass of workers in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Literature became realistic and therefore pessimistic. Religion became organized in social clubs where well-bred people met in luxurious churches and gave alms to the poor. On Sunday they listened to sermons--'Blessed are the meek'; 'Do unto others even as you would that others do unto you'; 'If thine enemy smite thee, turn the other cheek'; 'It is more blessed to give than to receive'--listened and acted as though they had read, as in very truth they ought to have read--'Might is right'; 'Do others before they do you'; 'Kill your enemies or be killed'; 'Make profits by any methods and at any cost so long as you can escape the lenient law.' This is a fair picture of the decadence of that Europe which led human civilization during the nineteenth century and looked unmoved on the writhing of Asia and of Africa.

W.E.B. Du Bois, The World and Africa (Oxford University Press), 16.

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By W.E.B. Du Bois

How the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. What are American children taught today about Reconstruction? . . . they would in all probability complete their education without any idea of the part which the black race has played in America; of the tremendous moral problem of abolition; of the cause and meaning of the Civil War and the relation which Reconstruction had to democratic government and the labor movement today . . .

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Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like Rivers - Black Poets Read their work

2 x CD, Compilation, 2000

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On This Night (If That Great Day Would Come), dedicated to WEB DuBois by Archie Shepp

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It is poignant to realize that Du Bois appeared to have had measured optimism concerning the progress of the black population and the march towards greater equality. These hopes were dashed in the decades to come as an ever-more aggressive Jim Crow regime took hold to enforce segregation and discrimination — in housing, schooling, employment, and voting rights. Lynchings and brutal race riots continued, culminating in horrific events like the Ocoee Massacre of blacks in Florida in 1920 and the Tulsa race massacre in 1921. Citizens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, and ordinary citizens made “long, slow progress” no longer a viable pathway towards racial equality. What parts of this story can now be told honestly and forthrightly in classrooms in Florida today? Now more than ever we need truth-speaking about our historical pasts, and yet now more than ever white supremacist elected officials are seeking to silence the truth.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society. W.E.B. Du Bois' stunning modernist data graphics

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America  by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert

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By Stephen Millies

In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were executed by the U.S. government on Juneteenth, 1953.

The Rosenbergs were blamed for the Soviet Union being able to develop an atomic bomb. Their frame-up and execution for espionage during the Korean War was the peak of the anti-communist witch hunt in the United States.

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W. E. B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois at the grave of Karl Marx, ca. September 1958

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Some people have the idea that crucifixion consists in the punishment of an innocent man. The essence of crucifixion is that men are killing a criminal, that men have got to kill him, and yet that the act of crucifying him is the salvation of the world. John Brown broke the law, he killed human beings. Those people who defended slavery had to execute John Brown, although they knew that in killing him they were committing the greater crime. It is out of that human paradox that there comes any crucifixion.

--- WEB DuBois

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Hua Sheng Dun Crossing the Color Line (They Comin' to 'Murica) / 华盛顿横渡红线 (他們來到美國) - based on German-born Americana artist Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of George Washington on the eve of the Battle of Trenton (Christmas 1776), with lyrics from Neil Diamond's "America" (1981)

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/eirikswood/hua-sheng-dun-crossing-the-color-line/