W.E.B. DuBois The Fight for Equality and the American Century Keith W. Cooper 931-0752 Recently, I learned the Reverend Jesse Jackson fathered a baby through an extramarital affair, This reminded me of attempts to vilify the character of Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, Cosby, OJ. Simpson, and other heroes in America. Because | don't believe in double standards, I researched the private lives of numerous white American leaders (mostly former congressmen). | will mention a few who have fallen from grace since the main- Stream press downplayed their sexual peccadilloes. Rep. John Young (Tex.), in 1976, staff secretary after she gave in to his "sexual advances." Rep. Howe (Utah) was arrested in 1976 on charges of soliciting two police- women posing as prostitutes. Rep. Richmond (N.Y.) was arrested in Washington in 1973 for’soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy. Republican Rep. Hinson (Miss.), in 1980, admitted committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in Virginia. Rep. Evans (R-Del.), Tom Railsback (R-Ill.) and Dan Quayle shared a cottage with Paula Parkinson (a lobbyist) dur- Ing a 1980 Florida vacation. Railsback and Quayle denied having sex with — Parkinson. Conservative Republican Rep. Donald Lukens (Ohio) was ac- cused of having paid to have sex with a young girl since she was 13. Lukens was sentenced to only One month in jail. _ Former House — Speaker Livingston recently resigned after admitting having extramarital af- fairs, Shall 1 say more? From Thomas Jefferson, who, by today's standards, raped a slave to President Cleveland (fathered a child out of wedlock) and Jesse Jackson, many leaders have Slipped. Jefferson, however, is remembered for the Louisiana Purchase and the Declaration of Independence, Jackson, whose son is now a torchbearer for racial justice, must reconcile with his wife. Linda Ronstadt's quote "My big fantasy has been to seduce a he oe vulnerability reachers with respect to the forbidden fruit", . 4: Bill: increased the salary of a former. One. fundar nental question to an understanding .of American his- 7 ‘tory is how black Americans developed the psychological stamina. and collective social capacity to cope with the sophis- ticated system of racial domina- tion that. white Americans had anchored deeply in law and customs. One man whose genius was for 70 years at the intellec- tual epicenter of the struggle to destroy white supremacy as pub- lic policy and social fact in the United States cannot be ignored: William Edward Burghardt Do Bois. W.E.B. Do Bois (1868- 1963) was a poor isolated young Negro, born in western Massachusetts three years after the Civil War. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Berlin and was acknowledged as the leader of ~ black American opinion since the death of Booker T. Washington in 1915. One of his well-known works is “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903). He was a co-founder of the NAACP in 1910 and editor for 25 years of its journal, the CRISIS: A Record of the Darker Races, whose circulation exceeded 100,000 copies per month in 1919. Du Bois had a capacity to shape black public opinion en- joyed by no previous Negro intellectual. He was hailed as the towering intellectual of his race, “the chief advocate for the full Americans. Sometime later, -phy”-----that of not waiting for some. distant future when the - white majority might change its mind and its behavior, but rather that Negroes needed to save themselyes by economic coop- eration and — _institutional- building. For the NAACP it was considered a frank acceptance of the social and legal fact of segregation. For the black left, it was petty bourgeois. black nationalism. For the civil rights mainstream, it undermined the only program that had any chance of success---that of liti- gation and lobbying. For these reasons and the rejection of other black leaders, the CRISIS no longer financially independ- ent because of declining circula- tion, in 1934 Du Bois resigned from the NAACP. In 1936 he toured Germany, Russia, China and Japan and received a trium- phal reception. Soon afterward he began engaging in interna- tional affairs and returned to the NAACP in 1944 as director of special research. As to his personal life, Du Bois wrote admiringly and frequently about beautiful and accomplished black women. He is depicted as a combination of charming cad and geriatric sex addict. There was a detailed account of Du Bois’s arrange- ments to keep his wife either in year-old. teacher, « arid ’ Nashville “Du Bois and Shirley. netime ite, - they were living in the same city leftward drift of his thought and. ai Ther his thought and pursuit of young women. There developed a “new racial philoso- ¢ Is one account of how he was egistration Act. He | bourided by the internal se: | of the U.S. government a — labeled an adulterer and that this. another city for yeas at atime or Du Bois even in a different place when Februar 68-year-old scholar chased a 29 ‘in Graham slept together for the first time on the second night in January, 1936”....... The Communist Party put forth a major effort to capture Du Bois for their side in the war of ideas after World War II. As late as 1944 Du Bois had written that, for a minority group like American Negroes, “the program of the American Communist Party was suicidal.” Yet not more than two years later he was surrounded increasingly by party member and fellow travelers. By 1947 as the Cold War began to reshape American politics, a double drift emerged: of an anti-Communist NAACP into the hands of the Truman administration and Du Bois un- mistakably to the far left. After his dismissal from the NAACP in 1948, he found himself in financial binds. Through Paul Robeson’s intervention and oth- ers from the “Left”, he was able to gain financial assistance. At that time he was still not a Communist but in February 1950, became chairman of the Peace Information Center which had been denounced as a “Soviet propaganda trick”. The PIC disbanded in October 1950 but height of the Cold War. Hi indicted for falling to co was° tried and “acquitte: November 1951. Although acquitted Bois became more isolated ing the 1950s and was den — passport until the Supreme ' ruled in 1958 that the Department’s passport po were in this regard uncon tional. In a final act of def he joined the Communist of the United States at the a 93 and exiled himself to A Despite his attacks economic and social systen Bois wrote that the United ‘ was “my country and the la my fathers--- a land of ma cent possibilities--the hon noble souls and generous ple.” Hopefully those “gen people” may come closer long-deferred understandir one of the 20" century’s intellectuals-------- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Note: | contacted a entrepreneur, Mr. William } Nobles, (also a relative) a affirmed, indeed, that the Bois Center was named to | W.E.B. Du Bois. else. We have shaped our enormous. ~ : movers and shakers among us Jordan, Shirley Caesar, Bill we have David Hammond, Michael Mildred Council, Dixon, Bernard Roundtree, Gaston Monk, Roy Spell, Rev. Sidney Locks, Rev. Randy Royal, Judge Jim Wynn, Don Brown, and Bernita Demery. These Blacks. have triumphed with blood, sweat and tears. 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