TIL about William English Walling, wealthy grandson of the 1880 Democratic vice presidential candidate who became a trade union socialist and co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Greene_Mr t3_10js75h on January 24, 2023 at 12:22 AM in todayilearned 7 comments 87
Madam_Voo t1_j5p9ry8 wrote on January 24, 2023 at 4:54 PM Very interesting but not surprising if you read anyone's autobiographies back then. I haven't dived too much into W.E.B. Du Bouis works but Brooker T Washington had connections and others. Permalink 2 Greene_Mr OP t1_j5pa59k wrote on January 24, 2023 at 4:56 PM W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were at loggerheads, though... Permalink Parent 1 Madam_Voo t1_j5qobhh wrote on January 24, 2023 at 10:02 PM Yes but all of their works are interesting to read same with Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. Permalink Parent 1
Greene_Mr OP t1_j5pa59k wrote on January 24, 2023 at 4:56 PM W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were at loggerheads, though... Permalink Parent 1 Madam_Voo t1_j5qobhh wrote on January 24, 2023 at 10:02 PM Yes but all of their works are interesting to read same with Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. Permalink Parent 1
Madam_Voo t1_j5qobhh wrote on January 24, 2023 at 10:02 PM Yes but all of their works are interesting to read same with Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. Permalink Parent 1
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