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The memorial park, located on the site of the DuBois family homestead just north of the town, was and is the subject of a heated controversy among the town's residents. The John Birch Society, the American Legion, and the Daughters of the American Revolution bitterly opposed the creation of...
(DuBois. a lifelong socialist, at 93 joined the Panty, renounced his American citizenship, and emigrated to Ghana where he died two years later in 1963.)
Others in the town, however, supported the idea of the memorial park. The Berkshire Eagle, the town's newspaper, said in an editorial last March that DuBois more than deserved the honor. Citing his outstanding record in scholarship and social activism, the paper said. "The important consideration is one of...
Ossie Davis, the actor. Horace Mann Bond. an intimate friend of DuBois and chairman of the sociology department at Atlanta University, and his son. Georgia legislator Julian Bond, addressed an informally-dressed gathering of 800 at the sunswept DuBois homesite.
Julian Bond said in the keynote speech that DuBois had pointed out the major problem of the twentieth century over half a century ago. "DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk said that the major problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the failure of...