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Thursday, February 23, 2023

W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter – The Marginalian

Sociologist and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois(February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) was the first African American person to receive a doctorate from Harvard — an achievement that both reflected and affirmed his faith in the life-changing power of education. So when his daughter Yolande — his only surviving child — was about to turn fourteen in 1914, Dr. Du Bois decided to enroll her in one of England's most prestigious and expensive public boarding schools… Shortly after Yolande's arrival in England, Dr. Du Bois wrote her an extraordinary letter. He wanted to make sure, in words loving and luminous, that his teenage daughter understood both her privilege and her indelible human rights…

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/23/w-e-b-du-bois-yolande-letter/

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