Our History
The W.E.B. DuBois Community Development Corporation is named after one of America's well known civil rights activists, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, scholar, and a founder of the NAACP, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963).
On Feb. 23, 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up. Du Bois's life and work were an inseparable mixture of scholarship, protest activity, and polemics. All of his efforts were geared toward gaining equal treatment for black people in a world dominated by whites and toward marshaling and presenting evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority.
"I believe in Service -- humble reverent service, from the blackening of boots to the whitening of souls; for Work is Heaven, Idleness Hell, and Wage is the "Well done!" of the Master who summoned all that labor and are heavy laden, making no distinction between the black sweating cotton-hands of Georgia and the First Families of Virginia, since all distinction not based on deed is devilish and not divine..." Read More Here!
The W.E.B. DuBois Community Development Corporation was founded by Bettie Edwards Murchison, President/CEO in 2006.
