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19 lut 2018 · Du Bois spent three months in France between December 1918 and March 1919, where, in addition to organizing a landmark Pan-African Congress, he met with African American troops and collected documents for his book.
4 kwi 2023 · Du Bois traveled to France after the armistice to interview Black troops. “I saw the mud and dirt of the trenches; I heard from the mouths of soldiers the kind of treatment that Black men got in the American army,” he said.
In the aftermath of World War I, W.E.B. DuBois urged returning soldiers to continue fighting for democracy at home. 1 We are returning from war! The Crisis and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle.
W. E. B. Du Bois with black officers in Le Mans, France, 1919 (The Crisis, June 1919) 2018 marks both the sesquicentennial of W. E. B. Du Bois ’s birth and the continued centennial of World War I.
12 gru 2019 · For the 1900 Exposition Universelle (the Paris International Exhibit), he organized a display of hundreds of images: colorful infographics charting African American advancement and monochromatic photographs that presented Black lives, in labor, worship, and leisure, at school, at work, and at home.
Le général Dubois (2e à partir de la gauche) et des officiers de son état-major (dont l'un appartient au Génie) à la citadelle.
8 mar 2018 · While most observers pointed to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Du Bois asserted that the real cause lay in “the wild quest for Imperial expansion among colored races between Germany, England and France primarily, and Belgium, Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary in lesser degree.”
