If the first volume can be published in ten years time, we will be satisfied. I eagerly invite your cooperation in bringing this matter to the attention of individual scholars, learned societies and institutions interested in such a project. We welcome all inquiries of opinion about what we here propose. Above all, we seek the assistance and support of all who can contribute to the realization of this endeavor. National Flag of Ghana Red represents the blood-shed by Black people.
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Green represents the land of Mother Africa. Black represents the Black Star of Ghana. Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He will become one of the greatest men of letters of his time, serving as an editor, teacher, political theorist, and novelist.