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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20241016
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SUMMARY:Historical Marker Dedication: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 16\, the Georgia Historical Society will
  dedicate a new historical marker about W.E.B. Du Bois. The marker will be
  erected on the campus of Morris Brown College. The dedication is a privat
 e event.\n\nThe marker reads:\nW.E.B. Du Bois\n(1868-1963)\nDr. William Ed
 ward Burghardt Du Bois\, born in Massachusetts\, became one of the most in
 fluential African-American leaders of the first half of the twentieth cent
 ury. As a scholar\, professor\, editor\, and advocate\, Du Bois dedicated 
 his life to the struggle for African-American equality. A graduate of Fisk
  University and the first African American to earn a PhD at Harvard\, Du B
 ois taught at Atlanta University (1897-1910\, 1934-1944)\, his office loca
 ted in nearby Fountain (Stone) Hall. While living in Georgia he witnessed 
 the Atlanta Race Massacre (1906)\, wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903) an
 d Black Reconstruction (1935)\, and outspokenly opposed lynching and Jim C
 row laws. Du Bois was prominent in the creation of the NAACP in 1909 and p
 romoted Pan-Africanism. In 1961 he joined the Communist party and moved to
  Ghana\, where he died in 1963.\nErected by the Georgia Historical Society
 \, The Rich’s Foundation\, and Morris Brown College\n&nbsp\;
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