Henriette Guizot de Witt
Henriette Guizot de Witt( August 6, 1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris) was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot.
Yolande Du Bois
Yolande Du Bois( October 21, 1900- 1961) was an American teacher known for her involvement in the Harlem Renaissance.
She is known as the daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois and the former Nina Gomer, and she was briefly married to poet Countee Cullen.
Du Bois graduated from Fisk University and later earned an MA from Columbia University.
She worked as a teacher, primarily in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jacob de Witt
Jacob de Witt," heer van Manezee, Melissant and Comstryen"( born 7 February 1589 in Dordrecht – died 10 January 1674 in Dordrecht) was a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant.
He was also a younger brother of Andries de Witt and the father of Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
De Witt Batty
Francis de Witt Batty (known as De Witt; 10 January 1879 – 3 April 1961) was the 7th Anglican Bishop of Newcastle from 1931 until his retirement in 1958.
William De Witt Hyde
William De Witt Hyde( September 23, 1858 – June 29, 1917) was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass.
Alexander De Witt
Alexander De Witt( April 2, 1798 – January 13, 1879) was a 19th- century American politician from the state of Massachusetts.
Born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, De Witt worked in textile manufacturing in Oxford, Massachusetts.
Active in politics as a Democrat, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1830, serving until 1836.
He served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851.
An anti-slavery activist, De Witt later joined the Free Soil Party.
As a Free Soiler he was elected to the United States Congress in 1853.
In January 1854, he was one of six signatories of the" Appeal of the Independent Democrats", drafted to oppose the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
After the demise of the Free Soil Party, De Witt joined the American Party, then the only major party with an anti-slavery platform.
He won a second term in 1854, and served in the 34th Congress.
He was defeated in his 1856 bid for reelection and returned to his previous work as a textile manufacturer.
De Witt later became a Republican, and supported the Union during the American Civil War by participating in efforts to recruit and equip soldiers for Massachusetts regiments.
De Witt died in Oxford on January 13, 1879.
He is buried in Oxford's South Cemetery.
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects of eugenics for blacks.
Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Before that, Du Bois had risen to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists that wanted equal rights for blacks.
Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities.
Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite.
He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth, a concept under the umbrella of Racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies.
He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers.
Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia.
After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread prejudice and racism in the United States military.
Du Bois was a prolific author.
His collection of essays, "The Souls of Black Folk", is a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus, "Black Reconstruction in America", challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era.
Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life.
He opens "The Souls of Black Folk" with the central thesis of much of his life's work: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."
He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published three autobiographies, each of which contains essays on sociology, politics and history.
In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal "The Crisis", he published many influential pieces.
Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life.
He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament.
The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
Jacob H. De Witt
Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt( October 2, 1784 – January 30, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Marbletown, New York, De Witt was raised in Twaalskill( now part of the city of Kingston).
His father was Colonel Thomas De Witt, a veteran of the American Revolution.
His aunt Mary De Witt was the first wife of General James Clinton, and was the mother of DeWitt Clinton.
Jacob De Witt attended the rural schools of Twaalskill and the Kingston( New York) Academy, afterwards becoming a farmer.
He served as the adjutant of a militia regiment in the War of 1812.
He continued his militia service, and later attained the rank of Colonel as commander of the New York Militia's 131st Regiment ..
De Witt was elected as a Democratic- Republican to the Sixteenth Congress( March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1820, and returned to farming.
In 1823 he married Sarah Ann Sleight, a granddaughter of Jacobus Swartwout.
Their children included John Sleight, Elsie, Mary and Anna.
Mary was the wife of Kingston banker James S. Evans, and Anna was the wife of Charles Lytle Lamberton.
In 1827 and 1840 De Witt was Kingston's Town Supervisor and a member of the Ulster County Board of Supervisors.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1839 and 1847.
De Witt died in Kingston on January 30, 1857.
He was originally buried at Sharpe Cemetery on Albany Avenue, and later reinterred at Kinsgton's Old Dutch Churchyard.
Johan de Witt Jr.
Johan de Witt Jr., heer van Zuid- en Noord- Linschoten, Snelrewaard and IJsselveere( 1662 – 1701) was the son of Johan de Witt and his wife Wendela Bicker( 1635 – 1668).
Having been part of the old Dutch patrician De Witt family, De Witt Jr. took a seat as secretary of the city of Dordrecht.
In 1672, after the murder of his father, his uncle Pieter de Graeff became the guardian of Johann and his siblings.
Johan de Witt Jr. later became the overseer of the orphanage in Dordrecht( 1684 – 1685).
After that he became secretary( 1688 – 1701) and member of the College of forty( 1695) of Dordrecht.
Johan de Witt Jr. married his cousin Wilhelmina de Witt( 1671 – 1701), the daughter of his uncle Cornelis de Witt( 1623 – 1672) en Maria van Berckel( 1632 – 1706).
The couple had two children: Johan de Witt Jr. owned an extensive library, consisting of books that previously belonged to his father as well as additions of his own.
Andries de Witt
Andries de Witt( 16 June 1573, in Dordrecht – 26 November 1637, in Dordrecht) was Grand Pensionary of Holland between 1619 and 1621.
He was the successor of Johan van Oldebarnevelt, who had been executed in 1619.
Andries de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt.
He was the oldest son of Johanna Heijmans and Cornelis Fransz de Witt( 1545 – 1622), 16- fold burgomaster of Dordrecht.
He was the uncle of Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary from 1652 to 1672, who were sons of his youngest brother Jacob de Witt.
Andries married Elizabeth van den Honert in 1604, with whom he had 10 children.

Question: Do Yolande Du Bois and William De Witt Hyde have the same nationality?