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February 2003, Vol 93, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 274
© 2003 American Public Health Association

VOICES FROM THE PAST

William Edward Burghardt DuBois Historian Social Critic, Activist

Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore.brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

PERHAPS THE MOST brilliant and influential African American intellectual of the 20th century, William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) DuBois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Mass. He was the son of Alfred DuBois, a Haitian-born barber and itinerant laborer, and of Mary Silvina Burghardt, a descendant of a freed Dutch slave who had fought briefly in the American Revolution. DuBois attended a racially integrated public high school and graduated with a classical college preparatory education. With scholarship funds provided by Great Barrington citizens, he then enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn, a southern college founded . . . [Full Text]




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