Theorist of Choice

SOC 101

The person that I have selected that contributed to our current views of sociology is W.E.B. DuBois also known as William Edward Burghardt Du Bois who stimulated as well as provoked the exists of African Americans all around the world like no other. On February 23, 1868 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born to Alfred and Mary Do Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents divorced during his early growing years as an adolescent; he lived with his mother until she died in 1884. Approximately a population of 50 Blacks and 5,000 Whites made up the community where his family took up residence, and additional to Du Bois already perplexed life, the Whites was very unfriendly, and mean-spirited toward the Black people. Du Bois attended Barrington High School where he was an outstanding pupil, and notwithstanding many misfortunes, he was given work for the New York as the local correspondent. He articulated the need for politically recognition for Blacks through speeches and editorials. Showing a high degree of intellect, in 1883 Du Bois excelled over his classmates, and as the first Black student to graduate from Great Barrington High School. At very young age Du Bois signed up at the Fisk University in Nashville where he acquired a partial scholarship. Year after year he observed the discrimination of his race, and his determination grew stronger to advance social justice and equality for the Black community. In the mist of injustice, discrimination, and inequality, a writer, annotator, and inspiring keynote speaker on racism was born. (http://webdubois.org) Around 25 years Du Bois was be the editor-in-chief of the Disaster magazine that operated to convey the thoughts as well as vision of the NAACP policy as well as information pertaining to Black population. Typically those publications was sketched totally with no commendation from the White associates of the NAACP which career were enormously disputed by Du Bois, therefore making less...