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The committee charged with drawing up plans for the DuBois Afro-American Research Institute held its initial meeting Tuesday night and the session was conducted without any of the bitterness and animosity which have marked other proceedings in this area over the past three years.
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department and a member of the committee had previously been an outspoken opponent of Administration efforts to set up the DuBois Institute on a University-wide basis. Guinier contended that the Institute should be developed under the auspices of the Afro...
The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, mandated by the Faculty almost four years ago, may finally be established.
BUT EPPS doesn't like to infringe on the Commission's prerogatives, and usually confines himself to handling minor matters such as complaints about term bill charges and the like. But when Shirley DuBois, widow of black scholar W. E. B. DuBois '95, spoke in Sanders Theater two years ago...
"DuBois was opposed to segregation but at the same time in favor of blacks banding together to achieve power," Wesley said. "Thus, he was the creator of the first black power concepts."