SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Philadelphia Negro, Wilberforce University, Cornel West
14 May 2016
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A biographical sketch of du bois: early years, university education, university career. He faced discrimination, even when he was applying for jobs at the top universities in the. Northern us: discrimination was greater in the south, but still present in the north. Since he couldn"t get anywhere with the top universities in the northern us, he had little choice but to start applying to black universities. He ended up accepted a position at wilberforce university in ohio (1894: was a methodist university for blacks, while there, he met a student her name was nina gomer. And that"s what he did: one of the studies that he did was on blacks in philadelphia. That study led to his first major publication the philadelphia negro: a. They had a son and he died as a result of these poor living conditions they were forced to live in: political activism.
