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W. E. B. DuBois
Rene Dubos

Henry Dunant
Marguerite Durand

W. E. B. DuBois Black History Biographical Timeline Poster

W. E. B. DuBois
b. 2-23-1868; Great Barrinton, MA
d. 8-27-1963

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
A noted scholar, writer, educator, and activist, W. E. B. Dubois devoted his life to studying and addressing the social and economic condition of black people. He was admired by his contemporaries for fighting injustice and defending freedom.

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Rene Dubos
b. 2-20-1901; France
d. 2-20-1982; Miami, FL

Microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, Rene Dubos, was also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for So Human An Animal, and is credited as an author of a maxim “Think globally, act locally”.

Dubos “devoted most of his professional life to the empirical study of microbial diseases and to the analysis of the environmental and social factors that affect the welfare of humans.”

Jean Henri Dunant
b. 5-8-1828; Geneva, Switzerland
d. 10-30-1910

Businessman and social activist Jean Henri Dunant witnessd the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy. His memories and experiences recorded in A Memory of Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863. The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy.

Marguerite Durand
b. 1-24-1864; France
d. 3-16-1936

Marguerite Durand was a French actress who turned to journalism after a failed marriage, and then became a women's rights activist after covering the Congrès Féministe International in 1896. Her daily newspaper, La Fronde, was a successor to Hubertine Auclert's La Citoyenne.

• Marguerite Durand (1864-1936): “La Fronde” féministe, ou, “Le Temps” en jupons (Chemins de la mémoire)

Mary Dyer
b. 1611; England
d. 6-1-1660; Massachusetts

Mary Dyer was hanged on Boston Common for the crime of being a Quaker in Massachusetts. She is one of four known as the Boston Martyrs (with Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson [Oct 27, 1659], and William Leddra [3-14-1661]). Her action constitutes the first great act of civil disobedience to take place on American soil.

FYI ~ Mary Dyer was a follower of Anne Hutchinson.

Bob Dylan
née Robert Allen Zimmerman
b. 5-24-1941; Duluth, MN

Singer songwriter Bob Dylan's work is forever associated with the counterculture protests of the 1960s .... “The Times They Are a-Changin’”.