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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. 🧵 ⬇️
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"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. . . The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that . . . it paints perfect man & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth." ― W.E.B. DuBois

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935), reissued 2021.

Video ⬇️of talk on book by Eric Foner, @KeeangaYamahtta, & @HenryLouisGates ⬇️
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The last chapter of "Black Reconstruction" by W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Propaganda of History,” is essential reading. #TeachReconstruction #TeachOutsideTextbook

Read an excerpt (student handout) from @facinghistory here: facinghistory.org/resource-libra…

In researching our report "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,” we found many issues Du Bois challenged in his scholarship are still prevalent in state standards & textbooks.

Read: teachreconstructionreport.org

"At first [the American Negro] was driven from the polls in the South by mobs and violence; and then he was openly cheated; finally by a ‘Gentlemen’s agreement’ with the North," -- @NAACP petition to UN, by W.E.B. Du Bois & others. #TeachVotingRights See⬇️
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"It is not Russia that threatens the U.S. so much as Mississippi…[I]nternal injustice done to one’s brothers is far more dangerous than the aggression of strangers from abroad." -- @NAACP petition to U.N., by W. E. B. Du Bois & others about lynching, segregation, and much more.

For 1900 World's Fair in Paris, "W. E. B. Du Bois’ team drew & colored, by hand, about 60 infographics — that compared things like population, property ownership, and literacy across the U.S. & rest of world”-- @KidadaEWilliams in Seizing Freedom. Listen: link.chtbl.com/uICDOgG0

As described in this article by @VincentIntondi, "W. E. B. Du Bois to Coretta Scott King: The Untold History of the Movement to Ban the Bomb," Du Bois was outspoken against nuclear weapons.

Relevant today. Read for #BHM2023 ⬇️
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"And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" -- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Black Reconstruction" #TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook