[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 19 (Friday, February 18, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E297]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       RESOLUTION HONORING W.E.B.

                                DU BOIS

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                           HON. JOHN W. OLVER

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 17, 2005

  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of 
this resolution honoring the great civil rights leader and educator 
W.E.B. Du Bois, on the anniversary of his birthday. As he once 
explained ``I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great 
hills, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, which began the 
freeing of American Negro Slaves''. Born in Great Barrington, 
Massachusetts on February 23, 1868, Du Bois lived a purposeful life 
until his death the day before the March on Washington. The site of his 
Great Barrington home, where Du Bois lived for his entire youth, is now 
a National Historic Landmark. The majority of his papers are archived 
and available to the public at the main library of the University of 
Massachusetts at Amherst, also in my district. Western Massachusetts is 
proud to claim W.E.B. Du Bois as a native son.
  ``More than any resolution, it is by our actions that we can honor 
W.E.B. Du Bois' life and legacy. We honor his accomplishments as a 
civil rights leader, educator, and author when we invest in education 
and when we stand together against injustice and racism.

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