W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
… the most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
At this time De Bois had been totally consumed by the lynching in the South and the people who participated in them as well as many less educated whites who had little concern and did not see lynching as a problem.
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1963, Educator & Author, Co-Founder of the NAACP, Commentary in The Crisis, 1916
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Johnson was the first Black man who won the heavyweight championship at a time when racism in America was rampant. Many whites referred to Jeffries as “The Great White Hope” who would take the champion back for the whites. He didn’t and was beaten badly.
There is a significant argument as to whether of not race should be used to try and predict the variables that will likely produce crimes. Some social scientists argue that virtually everything correlates with race {633357} and therefore the predictions are meaningless. Here, Kurtz argues that if you do not use race, since it does correlate with so much, then you might as well not try and determine the predictive factors of crime. Reality lies in the center, use race as one of the statistical variables but do not use it for profiling potential criminals and potential suspects unless there is observable and not deduced or inferred evidence of race in the crime.
Booth was the younger son of a very prominent Northern family of actors. His older brother was considered the greatest American actor, and the rest of the family were abolitionists and vehement Union supporters. They found young John’s views reprehensible.
Surprising to most people who know of President Theodore Roosevelt’s general liberals, his 4th son was an ultraconservative who founded and joined racist, anti-Semitic, right wing organizations, and to the distress of many in the family and without lent his name to many of the most extreme right wing causes and organizations.
Jackson was a civil rights worker who was murdered by white racists trying to intimidate Blacks from their desegregation efforts. King broadened the moral responsibility to those who did not oppose the segregationist system prevalent in the South.
Brewster was commenting on the murder trial of the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale. At the time, feeling and fear were so great, and the media coverage so intensive, as to make such fair trials difficult.
Named after penal reformer Johne Howard, 1726-1790. Howard Associations have since been organized in many countries.
Asked if there was still much racial prejudice in major league baseball:. The remark led to his resignation.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (in Berlin, Germany) and Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
