Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. 1  Today on the birthday of pioneering civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, we take a look at his rivalry with Booker T. Washington and how both leaders and their clashing ideologies paved the way for the modern Civil Rights Movement in America.
Definition of orthopedics for English Language Learners. medical : a branch of medicine that tries to prevent and correct problems that affect bones and muscles.
Orthopaedist: An orthopaedic surgeon, a doctor who corrects congenital or functional abnormalities of the bones with surgery, casting, and bracing. Orthopaedists also treat injuries to the bones. Sometimes spelled orthopedist. The spelling of orthopedist with an e is quite common today but it is incorrect because it relates the term to the foot since in Latin pedis is the foot. Orthopaedist with an ae is the correct spelling.