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Not done for now: Given the three quality sources provided in-article as support for the high school graduation information, we should probably evaluate this proposed change by taking into account more sourcing than the two provided here (one is a pamphlet and the other is apparently a reprint of a different tertiary source, neither of which indicates where its information about his secondary schooling is coming from).
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@Pinchme123 I'm wondering if there is anything I can/need to do in order to move this edit forward. I've found additional evidence, but am of course willing to do more. I'm just new to this process. Sgraulty (talk) 00:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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change "Du Bois was an early and lifelong supporter of Zionism." to "Du Bois was an early supporter of Zionism, but his views changed due to the influence of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Du Bois's poem 'Suez' was foundational in the creation of Black anti-Zionism."[1]Aburroughs93 (talk) 18:48, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion ongoing... @Aburroughs93: I think that a better phrasing would be Du Bois was an early supporter of Zionism, but his views changed during the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. Nadia Alahmed contends that Du Bois came to view "Gamal Abdel Nasser as a Pan-African symbol, a power to resist Western" neo-colonialism and that Du Bois's poem "Suez" influenced Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement in forming Black anti-Zionism.[2]
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. He rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks, and was one of the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909. He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and published three autobiographies. Black Reconstruction in America (1935) challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. On August 28, 1963, a day after his death, his book The Souls of Black Folk was highlighted by Roy Wilkins at the March on Washington, and hundreds of thousands of marchers honored him with a moment of silence. A year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, embodying many of the reforms for which he had campaigned his entire life, was enacted. This gelatin silver print of Du Bois was taken in 1907 by the American photographer James E. Purdy, and is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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Not done for now: Given the three quality sources provided in-article as support for the high school graduation information, we should probably evaluate this proposed change by taking into account more sourcing than the two provided here (one is a pamphlet and the other is apparently a reprint of a different tertiary source, neither of which indicates where its information about his secondary schooling is coming from).
Done I've changed the school and added several of your citations. The previous claim on this article was unsourced and of the two sources on Searles High School (Great Barrington, Massachusetts)#Notable_alumni, one doesn't mention the school and the second doesn't actually say Du Bois went there. – macaddct1984 (talk | contribs) 13:23, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
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