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This chapter attempts to show how the traits of intellectual prowess, humanitarianism, the belief in social equality, and activism influenced and elevated the work of Jane Addams and W. E. B. Du Bois, forming the basis of an unconventional but consequential relationship. This chapter argues that their relationship was one characterized and confounded by a plethora of social and economic events tearing at the very fabric of the nation. These events spanned the apparent dimensions of race and gender in a society shifting from agrarian to industrial/urban dominance but were also accompanied by the turbulence of migration of children of former slaves, the tenacity of Jim Crow, the struggle of European immigrants, the influence of the progressives, the emergence of new social science disciplines (i.e., sociology, applied sociology, and social work), the campaign for women’s suffrage, and the beginning of African Americans’ first national social movement. It was against this backdrop that Addams and Du Bois forged their relationship: one based on intellectual and justice-based activities. We argue that these traits are essential for contemporary organizations to implement diversity and inclusion in their programmatic offerings successfully. |
