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The professors who signed the letter are W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson.
Such service projects "can begin to close the economic gap that divides the black community in two," said DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., in a recent publication.
The service, organized by the Law School, the Kennedy School and the W.E.B. DuBois Center, will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Malkin Penthouse in the KSG.
Among those expected to attend and pay tribute to Higginbotham are President Neil L. Rudenstine, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Higginbotham's wife and daughter.
In 1922, W.E.B. DuBois had noted in the NAACP's Crisis magazine that President Lowell, "when asked by the NAACP to join leading Americans in denouncing lynching, did not even acknowledge the letter." And in January 1923, the New York Times and the prominent black publications Negro World, Defender, Crisis...