DuBOIS ARCHIVIST, ROBERT COX, SPECIAL GUEST
ON THIS WEEK’S ‘DECADE OF THE DIASPORA’!
On Thursday, June 11th, Professor Robert Cox, the lead archivist of the greatly coveted papers of the immortal WEB DuBois, will be special guest on David Horne’s ‘Decade Of The Diaspora’.
W.E.B DuBois is considered by many the first great giant of African-American scholars of the 20th century. He pioneered the applying of the sociological method and dialectal materialism to his research and writing on the global Black Experience. His works, Souls Of Black Folk, The Philadelphia Negro, Black Reconstruction, The Suppression Of The African Slave Trade, are considered some of the most important of their kind.
DuBois was also one of the founding leaders of the country’s oldest civil rights organizations, the NAACP. He was also considered a key figure in the emergence of 20th Pan-Africanism. The quintessential activist scholar, when he was charged with being a foreign agent of another country in the 1950s, he opted to leave the United States for the newly independent fountainhead of Pan-Africanism, Ghana, under the leadership of the great Kwame Nkrumah.
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is the home for the W.E.B DuBois Papers and has been since 1973. The collection includes, among other things, over 100,000 correspondence items in nearly 300 boxes.
Robert Cox is the Head of Special Collections and University Archives at U Mass-Amherst and has been so since 2004. He is a highly regarded specialist on early American history.
“We are deeply honored to have Professor Cox with us on such an incredible subject in the great and the amazingly prolific W.E.B DuBois,” said an emphatic Kymberly S. Newberry, the show’s ‘Cultural Ambassador,’ associate producer and co-host…
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SOURCE: zayid muhammad
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