Shirley graham du bois biography of donald
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James Baldwin As we are nearing the end of Black History Month, I find myself reading and listening to the words of James Baldwin. He became one of the most articulate voices of the Civil Rights Movement, yet it is hard to find any description or discussion - in his own words - of his life as a gay man. One could guess that he describes some of his gay life in the novel Giovanni's Room , which can easily be dismissed as a work of fiction. We know that he met the man who became the love of his life, Lucien Happersberger, in Paris in 1949, when Lucien was 17 and James was 25. The fact that Lucien was white could have served as proof that, at least in Baldwin's mind, black men and white men could love each other. But unfortunately, Baldwin chose to remain in the closet, using references to "... my wife" and "... my woman, my children..." in his interviews. The truth is, the most significant woman in his life was his mother, and the children he referred to were ...
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Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois en 1946.
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| Sépulture | W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture (en) |
| Nom de naissance | Lola Shirley Graham, Jr. |
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| Enfant | David G. DuBois (d) |
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Shirley Graham Du Bois, née le à Indianapolis et morte le à Pékin, est une femme de théâtre, écrivaine, compositrice et militante des droits civiques américaine.
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[modifier | modifier le code]Shirley Graham Du Bois est née Lola Shirley Graham à Evansville dans l'Indiana le . Son père David A. Graham était un pasteur protestant[2].
En 1929, elle vit à Paris, en France, où elle est venue étudier la composition, notamment à la Sorbonne, espérant ainsi pouvoir ensuite mieux subvenir aux besoins matériels de sa famille. Lors de son séjour en France, elle rencontre notamment Jeanne et Paulette Nardal, deux sœurs martiniquaises qui la convie parmi leur cercle de l’intelligentsia noire de l'époque[3],[4].
En 1931, elle poursuit ses études d'histoire de la musique au College Oberlin, d'où elle ressort diplômée en 1935. Elle y a rédigé une thèse intitulée The Survival of
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I recently refine reading Gerald Horne’s account of Shirley Graham Fall to bits Bois (Race Woman: depiction Lives make a rough draft Shirley Gospeller Du Bois)
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