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February 2007Happy Birthday: 1868Civil rights activist, scholar, educator, and writer William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born February 23, 1868. To note the occasion, we look at some of the words that entered the language in 1868. For a complete list of all 218 words that first appeared in print in 1868, select the Collegiate as your reference, then click on Advanced Search. Type 1868 into the Date field and click on Search. By the time W.E.B. DuBois died at age 95, one day before Dr. Martin Luther King made his "I Have a Dream" speech," he had lived to see the first Negro History Week develop into Black History Month and had witnessed many an addition to our lexicon. More than 200 words share a birth year with DuBois; we pulled out a few of interest. |