Enlightened Free Thinking Nubian Kings And Queens

Educator, essayist, journalist, scholar, social critic, and activist W.E.B. DuBois, was born to Mary Sylvina Burghardt and Alfred Dubois on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.   He excelled in the public schools, graduating valedictorian from his high school in 1884.  Four years later he received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1890 DuBois earned a second bachelor's degree from Harvard University.  DuBois began two years of graduate studies in History and Economics at the University of Berlin in Germany in 1892 and then returned to the United States to begin a two year stint teaching Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio.  In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard University.  His doctoral thesis,  "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America, " became the first book published by Harvard University Press in 1896.  Later that year Du...

Jessie Redmon Fauset  (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.    Fauset was the literary editor of the  NAACP  magazine  The Crisis . She also was the editor and co-author for the African-American children's magazine  The Brownies' Book . She studied the teachings and beliefs of  W.E.B Du Bois  and considered him to be her mentor. Fauset was known as one of the most intelligent women novelists of the  Harlem Renaissance , earning her the name "the midwife". In her lifetime she wrote four novels as well as poetry and short fiction. Fauset was born on April 27, 1882, in  Camden County, New Jersey . She was the daughter of Redmon Fauset, an  African Methodist Episcopal  minister, and Annie Seamon Fauset. Jessie's mother died when she was a child and her father remarried. Fauset came from a large family mired in poverty. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls, an...