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.
(used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments. Origin of orthopedics Expand.