The Department of Africana Studies presents the 32nd Annual Distinguished W.E.B Dubois lecture. Dr. Mary Frances Berry gave the keynote address. Dr. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, author of nine books, and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture took place on November 10th, 2010 in the University Center Ballroom at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a musical performance by the UMBC Jubilee Choir.
The great WEB DuBois said this about himself.
'... Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me,I should have probably been an unquestioning worshippers at the shrine of the established social order into which I was born.But just that part of this order which seemed to most of my fellows nearest perfection seemed to me most inequitable and wrong: and starting from the critique,I gradually,as the years went by,found other things TO QUESTION MY ENVIRONMENT...'
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