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...youthful-looking 81-year-old Wesley graduated from Fisk University in 1911 and received his Bachelor of Arts from Fisk in 1911. He received a Masters from Yale...
...Wesley spoke glowingly of Du Bois, one of the first blacks to attend Harvard, calling him a "major prophet," a "Harvard scholar in every sense," and the "originator of black power...
...DuBois was opposed to segregation but at the same time in favor of blacks banding together to achieve power," Wesley said. "Thus, he was the creator of the first black power concepts...
...Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...
There is also a need for the development of the "inner self' Wesley said. "Build it tall, clear, true, high, broad. Build it, whether black or white...