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9 de fev. de 2016 · On October 29, 1914, W. E. B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) wrote a letter to his teenage daughter, Yolande, soon-to-be a new student at Bedales school in England. (The mixed-sex school was founded by J H Badley (1865-1967) in 1893 to be “a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes typical of late-Victorian public schools”.)
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Du Bois, W.E.B. Topics Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 African American scholars African American authors African American leadership African American political activists African American families in art Du Bois, Yolande Nina, 1900-1961 Genres Portraits Photographs Physical Description Gelatin ...
By summer they had separated and Yolande was treated for illness. She moved to Baltimore and worked as a teacher. She married a second time to football player Arnette Franklin Williams and had a daughter Du Bois Williams before divorcing in 1936. W.E.B. DuBois was still living at age 93 when Yolande died in 1961, thus outliving both of his ...
29 de nov. de 2021 · Yolande Du Bois Irvin, the only grandchild of civil rights icon Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, died recently in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was 89 years old. Irvin, who followed in the footsteps of her grandfather and family, became a professor of psychology in 1988 at Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black college and university (HBCU).
W.E.B. Du Bois married the former Nina Gomer in 1896; they were married until her death in 1950. They had two children: son Burghardt, who died in infancy, and daughter Yolande. Du Bois married the former Shirley Graham in 1951; they had no children, but her son from a previous marriage, David Graham, later took Du Bois’s name.
When Nina Gomer was born in 1872, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, C S Gomer, was 35 and her mother, Jeanette Pease, was 33. She married William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in 1889, in Ghana. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1940 and ...
