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Du Bois

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proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Dubois.

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As professor W. E. B. Du Bois puts it, the idea should not be simply to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
They listened with respect and enthusiasm to a scholarly address delivered by Professor Du Bois at Hull-House on a Lincoln's birthday, with apparently no consciousness of that race difference which color seems to accentuate so absurdly, and upon my return from various conferences held in the interest of "the advancement of colored people," I have had many illuminating conversations with my cosmopolitan neighbors.
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325