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Remembering #TTFortune (10/3/1856 - 6/2/1928)
"His leadership was brilliant, fearless, aggressive and incorruptible. He never fawned or flattered, never bent his knee for expediency, never sold himself or his people . . . he was always a sincere friend or a sincere enemy."
"His leadership was brilliant, fearless, aggressive and incorruptible. He never fawned or flattered, never bent his knee for expediency, never sold himself or his people . . . he was always a sincere friend or a sincere enemy."
Remembering #TTFortune (10/3/1856-6/2/1928)
The Afro-American agitator steadfastly stood for civil rights. In 1884 he screamed out "Let us agitate! agitate! AGITATE! until the protest shall wake the nation from its indifference"
The Afro-American agitator steadfastly stood for civil rights. In 1884 he screamed out "Let us agitate! agitate! AGITATE! until the protest shall wake the nation from its indifference"
In 1883, following the barbarous decision of the SCOTUS in the civil rights cases, #TTFortune called for the creation of a civil rights organization. In 1890, the Afro-American League, the country's first national civil rights organization, was created.
Good news, but since the @nytimes, along with other news outlets have framed the discussion around #WEBDuBois' 1920s letters, it might be good to give a bit more history, though it is still only a partial history, of the struggle over capitalization. 1/
#WEBDuBois didn't start the campaign for capitalization, it was decades old in the 1920s. Moreover, he wrote the NYT multiple times in the 1920s, including three in Nov 1925.
On Nov 9th, he refers to the practice of using lower-case as needless pin-pricks on the Black reader 2/
On Nov 9th, he refers to the practice of using lower-case as needless pin-pricks on the Black reader 2/
#WEBDuBois’ first call for capitalization was open and direct. On page 1 of his 1899 study, The Philadelphia Negro, he famously stated that he was using a capital N “…because I believe that eight million Americans are entitled to a capital letter." 3/
