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Cullen married Yolande Du Bois on April 9, 1928. She was the surviving child of W. E. B. Du Bois and his first wife Nina Gomer Du Bois, whose son had died as an infant. The two young people were said to have been introduced by Cullen's close friend Harold Jackman.
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).
The couple's second child, Nina Yolande Du Bois was born in Great Barrington on 21 October 1900. The 1910 U.S. Census recorded William E. Du Bois, 42, in ward 1 of Atlanta, Georgia, with wife Nina G. Du Bois, 38, and daughter Nina Y. Du Bois, 9. William was born in Massachusetts to a father born in Connecticut and a mother born in Massachusetts.
16 de feb. de 2019 · Yolande married again in 1931, to Arnette Williams, a football player, and they had a daughter, DuBois Williams, ... W.E.B. Du Bois remarried in 1951 and moved to Ghana in 1961, ...
21 de abr. de 2018 · His daughter, Yolande Du Bois, found much of her life shaped by her father's desire for his daughter to be the exemplar of the abilities and potential of African-Americans. In this episode, Elizabeth examines Yolande's life and to what it extent it was shaped by her father. Podcaster: Elizabeth. David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography ...
9 de dic. de 2021 · Yolande Du Bois Irvin, W.E.B.'s granddaughter, loved travel and education. Her son, Jeffrey Peck, said his mother was a "free spirit." Continuing her grandfather’s legacy of Black excellence, she was a well-known lecturer.
20 de feb. de 2013 · theGRIO Q&A - W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent scholar and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
