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WED DuBois and The Talented Tenth
W.E.D stands for William Edward Burghard. He was born February 23,1868 and he died August 27th in 1963. He was an American sociologist historian, civil rights activist. -
Fraternities and Sororities
The black Elite also established the Greek letter black fraternities and sororities. in 1906 seven students at Cornell University formed Alpha Phi Alpha, the first college fraternity for black men. -
Fraternities
Alpa Kappa- Alpa was fouded in 1908 at Howard University. Several other Greek letter organizations were subsequently launched at Howard omega psi Phil fraternity was founded at Indiana University,and signa Gamma Rho -
WED DUBois
After completing graduate work at the university of Berlin and Harvard where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate He became a professor of history sociology and economics at Atlanta university. -
WED
DuBois was one one of the co-founders of the Natinal Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -
Urban League
The national Urban League was formed on October 11,nto help African American migrants assimilate into urban life. The National urban league for the protection of colored women the committee on urban conditions among Negroes in New York all dedicated to helping Americans Urban Newcomers maninly from the south expand their employment housing healthcare and and educational opportunities -
Sororities
Black fraternities and Sororities also stressed scholarship , social graces, and community involvement. also it was the first time many black people there had received professional medical attention. -
Fraternities
In 1922 Black fraternities and sorority also stresses scholarship, social graces and community involvement. Alpa phi Alpha created the "Go to High school, Go to college". -
Black Elite
many of the black leaders described by w.e.d Du bois as the talented tenth formed protest organizations joined reform eforts and organized self-help groups the leaders were middle and upear class black people who better educated than most American -black or whites. -
Naacp
In 1909 the NAACP was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the united states. During its early years the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day.They called for federal anti-lynching laws and coordinated a series of challenges to state sponsored segregation in public schools, an effort that led to the landmark 1954 supreme court decision in brown vs board of education which declared thedoctrine
