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#HistoricalPoeticTiming

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most consequential intellectual architects of the civil rights movement. A co-founder of the NAACP, Harvard-trained historian and sociologist, and a relentless critic of racism who shaped early Black political thought through works like “The Souls of Black Folk” and decades of global activism.

I just relearned today that he died on Aug 27, 1963, “just one day before Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on …

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Washington, where his death was announced to the crowd, marking a powerful, almost symbolic passing of the torch between activist generations. MLK then passed his own torch to the next 3 generations.
Apr 4 at 8:15pmSidetoolz