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In 1904, the first African -American Greek Secret Society was formed in Philadelphia, by Dr. Henry Minton and five of his colleagues. The Boule, (an acronym for Sigma Pi Phi) and pronounced “boo-lay”), was formed to bring together a select group of educated Black men and women. Fashioned after Yale’s Skull and Bones, the Boule historically takes pride in having provided leadership and service to Black Americans during the Great Depression, World Wars I and II, and the Civil Rights…

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W.E.B. Du Bois was an intellectual sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, & author. Du Bois earned his Ph.D in History & became the first African American to earn a Doctorate degree at Harvard University in 1890. He was the founder of the NAACP in 1909 along with the journal titled "The Crisis". Later on, he became a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. His works of literature include The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and The Philadelphia Negro…

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Talented Tenth, (1903), concept espoused by black educator and author W.E.B. Du Bois, emphasizing the necessity for higher education to develop the leadership capacity among the most able 10 percent of black Americans. Du Bois was one of a number of black intellectuals who feared that what they saw as the overemphasis on industrial training (as evidenced, for example, by the plan proposed by Booker T. Washington in the 1895 Atlanta Compromise) would confine blacks permanently to the ranks of…

Marcus Garvey is famed for being Jamaica’s first national hero who advocated for Black nationalism in Jamaica and particularly in the United States. Born on this day (August 17) in, 1887, Garvey travelled around many countries observing the poor living conditions under which black people were working at the time. In 1914, he started the...