#InContext: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#InContext: Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: MOLLY WICKER As a young man coming of age during the time of the Civil War, Ralph Waldo Emerson saw firsthand the consequences and destruction of slavery. Emerson was a passionate opponent of slavery and his thoughts on the subject are scattered throughout his...
#InContext: W.E.B. Du Bois

#InContext: W.E.B. Du Bois

By: MOLLY WICKER Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, but his life and legacy extended far beyond the confines of the Deep South. As a child, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, better known as W.E.B. Du...