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Marker detail: Julian Bond, Ossie Davis,<br>Dr. Edmund Gordon & Walter Wilson
Photographer: by Walter Scott, originally published in the Berkshire Eagle, October 25, 1969
Caption: Marker detail: Julian Bond, Ossie Davis,
Dr. Edmund Gordon & Walter Wilson

Additional Description: Georgia legislator Julian Bond (top left), who later chaired the National Board of the NAACP, gave the keynote address at the dedication of the Du Bois Memorial Park in 1969, Actor Ossie Davis (top right) emceed the event, a reprise of the role he and his wife Ruby Dee played at the March on Washington in 1963. Dr. Edmund Gordon (bottom left) a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, had served as National Research Director for Project Head Start. Before he became a land developer in Western Massachusetts, Walter Wilson (bottom right) was Southern Secretary for the American Civil Liberties Union. You can view an 8 minute film from the dedication ceremony at the "Media and Exhibits" page of University of Massachusetts Amherst Special Collections and University Archives website, htttp://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/dubois/.
Submitted: March 30, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p645890
File Size: 1.920 Megabytes

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