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President Neil L. Rudenstine unveiled a bust of Du Bois which will be the first likeness of an African American to be placed in Memorial Hall.
Among those reading from Du Bois' work were Dove, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, author Jamaica Kincaid, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Arnold Rampersad.
The program opened and closed with a prayer and alternated between readings and four spirituals, which Du Bois referred to as "Sorrow Songs."
Gates explained that he had designed theprogram this way because, in The Souls of BlackFolk, Du Bois concerned himself with both thespiritual and the secular and was the firsthistorian to canonize African American Spirituals.
Du Bois, who was born in 1868, received an A.B.from Fisk University and, at the age of 20, becamethe seventh African American to attend HarvardCollege. He was the first Black student to receivea Ph.D from Harvard.