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Subject: DU BOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD B. (1868-1963)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOOKER T. AND W.E.B., by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems to me,' said booker t
Last Line: I don't agree,' %said w.E.B.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Writing And Writers


FIVE BLACK MEN, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Douglass, du bois, garvey, king, and malcolm x
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940); King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Reform And Reformers; Writing And Wri


FOR WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHD, by BETTE DARCIE LATIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have awakened from the unknowing to the knowing
Last Line: Crushed us into reverence.
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers


TO W.E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The race that wheedles mercies from its god
Last Line: Proud of that ancient ebon of its face!
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Writing & Writers


TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandly isolate as the god of day
Last Line: Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers


W. E. B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In harvard square
Last Line: Your intense, communal daring
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Harvard University; Reform And Reformers; Writing & Writers


W.E.B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In harvard square
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Harvard University; Reform And Reformers; Writing And Writers