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Du Bois did not attend Searles High School as stated in the entry (without citation). Instead, he attended Great Barrington High School as stated in the corrections section of this article: https://theberkshireedge.com/berkshire-hotel-project-at-former-searles-school-may-go-forward-this-year/ Du Bois would have been about 30 years old when Searles opened in 1898. Sgraulty (talk) 15:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please change "He graduated from the town's Searles High School." to "He graduated from Great Barrington High School in June 1884 at the age of 15" with the citations: https://www.duboisnhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DuBoisGBBrochureMap-1.pdf and https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois

Add in the image of his high school graduating class: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/66a9dc30-19f4-9e2b-e040-e00a18061c88 Sgraulty (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: Given the three quality sources provided in-article as support for the high school graduation information, we should probably evaluate this proposed change by taking into account more sourcing than the two provided here (one is a pamphlet and the other is apparently a reprint of a different tertiary source, neither of which indicates where its information about his secondary schooling is coming from).

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--Pinchme123 (talk) 02:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have found more resources for his graduation from Great Barrington High School including a photo of his senior class, diploma and a letter her wrote to the students of Great Barrington High School indicating he graduated from there in 1884, all from the WEB Du Bois Papers collection of UMass Amherst. That collection contains additional primary sources indicating he graduated from Great Barrington High School. Separately, a collection at Fisk University, an article in The Atlantic, The Du Bois Center website, as well as an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy all indicate he graduated from Great Barrington High School.

I'm unable to do the work on the image at the moment, so will leave that for someone else or another time. Thank you. Sgraulty (talk) 03:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pinchme123 I'm wondering if there is anything I can/need to do in order to move this edit forward. I've found additional evidence, but am of course willing to do more. I'm just new to this process. Sgraulty (talk) 00:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sgraulty. I am not in a position at the moment to evaluate edit requests, however I am sure others are working through the request queues. If you feel you are ready to again request this edit with reliable sources that outweigh the ones which already exist in the article, feel free to either re-open this request (by changing the "answered=" parameter at the top of this section back to "no"), or create a new edit request at the bottom of this Talk page. --Pinchme123 (talk) 00:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I've changed the school and added several of your citations. The previous claim on this article was unsourced and of the two sources on Searles High School (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)#Notable_alumni, one doesn't mention the school and the second doesn't actually say Du Bois went there. – macaddct1984 ^{(talk | contribs)} 13:23, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change link to "John Brown" biography in "Selected Works" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(Biography) to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(biography). Saranrapjs (talk) 12:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 12:09, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

change "Du Bois was an early and lifelong supporter of Zionism." to "Du Bois was an early supporter of Zionism, but his views changed due to the influence of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Du Bois's poem 'Suez' was foundational in the creation of Black anti-Zionism."^[1] Aburroughs93 (talk) 18:48, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Discussion ongoing...
@Aburroughs93: I think that a better phrasing would be Du Bois was an early supporter of Zionism, but his views changed during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Nadia Alahmed contends that Du Bois came to view "Gamal Abdel Nasser as a Pan-African symbol, a power to resist Western" neo-colonialism and that Du Bois's poem "Suez" influenced Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement in forming Black anti-Zionism.^[2]

Black anti-Zionism is actually a redirect to Black-Palestinian solidarity, so maybe it would be better to use the latter.

Peaceray (talk) 20:02, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me Aburroughs93 (talk) 22:56, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done The paragraph now reads:

Du Bois was an early supporter of Zionism. He viewed Palestinians as uncivilized and viewed Islam as the main factor in what he saw as a lack of progress. However, he did not express support for Israel during the Suez Crisis, instead backing Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nadia Alahmed contends that Du Bois came to view "Nasser as a Pan-African symbol, a power to resist Western" neo-colonialism and that Du Bois's poem "Suez" influenced Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement in forming Black-Palestinian solidarity.

Peaceray (talk) 23:39, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks, and was one of the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909. He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and published three autobiographies. Black Reconstruction in America (1935) challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. On August 28, 1963, a day after his death, his book The Souls of Black Folk was highlighted by Roy Wilkins at the March on Washington, and hundreds of thousands of marchers honored him with a moment of silence. A year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, embodying many of the reforms for which he had campaigned his entire life, was enacted. This gelatin silver print of Du Bois was taken in 1907 by the American photographer James E. Purdy, and is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Photograph credit: James E. Purdy; restored by Adam Cuerden Recently featured: NGC 3324 Ceramica pisi Kefermarkt altarpiece Archive More featured pictures