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Shirley Graham Du Bois (born Lola Shirley Graham Jr.; November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works.
19 de mar. de 2007 · Learn about the life and achievements of Shirley Graham Du Bois, the second wife of W.E.B. Du Bois and a prominent African American woman in music, politics and literature. She wrote operas, biographies, and became a citizen of Ghana and a critic of imperialism.
Learn about the life and work of Shirley Graham Du Bois, an author, playwright, composer, and activist who married W.E.B. Du Bois. Explore her collections of papers, books, and music at the Schlesinger Library.
Shirley Graham Du Bois was a playwright, composer, conductor, director, and author who advocated for Black culture and social justice. She married W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951 and moved to Ghana, where she continued his work and faced persecution under COINTELPRO.
4 de mar. de 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Shirley Graham Du Bois, a civil rights activist, composer, and writer who married W.E.B. Du Bois and moved to Ghana. Explore her early years, career, marriage, exile, and legacy.
Shirley Graham Du Bois died of breast cancer on March 27, 1977, aged 80, in Beijing, China. She died as Tanzanian. She had moved from Ghana to Tanzania after Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown on 24 February 1966, and became close to Tanzanian president, Julius Nyerere, and acquired Tanzanian citizenship.
13 de mar. de 2019 · Shirley Graham Du Bois was an important contributor to 20 th century Black liberation thought. Nowhere is the significance of her contributions more evident than in Freedomways, the journal she founded and edited in the 1960s.
