Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DuBois left Great Barrington to make his place in the world: to challenge and ultimately defeat Booker T. Washington: to found, in effect, the NAACP: and to become the father of twentieth century black intellectuals. His efforts to solve the American racial dilemma led him to take varied political positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this...
...COLD in Great Barrington. The sun, as if shining through a prism of ice cast a brittle, pale yellow light on the oval field where the crowd had gathered, and the chill, biting wind that whistled through the trees encircling the lot seemed to bode ill. But the expected trouble-an attempt to disrupt the dedication ceremonies-did not come and was soon forgotten as the crowd took stock of itself and the ceremonies...
...three of DuBois's relatives-his cousin, granddaughter, and grandson-to whom he, so aristocratic and impervious to outsiders, was warm and loving and full of wit. Others, black and white, who did not know DuBois personally, knew that they were indebted to him, and so come to Great Barrington to repay a portion of that debt...
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...Dartmouth's top runner, Eric Potter, took fourth, just one second ahead of Harvard's John Heyburn, who put on a great stretch push that almost caught Potter, Howie Foye, running his best race of the year, finished sixth, and Royce Shaw came in seventh...