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...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...
...Du Bois co-founded the National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People, and taught atWilberforce University, the University ofPennsylvania and Atlanta University. The U.S.government forced him to flee to Ghana at the ageof 93 because of his left-wing political views...
Rudenstine described Du Bois as a pioneeringfigure in African-American historiography. He saidthat though it is too late to reverse either theUnited States' intolerance toward Du Bois or theUniversity's failure to hire the noted sociologistand historian, Harvard "welcome[s] him, alas toolate, back home...