W. E. B. DuBois Symposium: "Souls of Black Folk" in the 21st Century: Implications of Race, Culture, and Pan-Africanism in the Global Village
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content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 2000 February 5
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content: Box 25, Folder 18
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Annual national observance of African American history month program. The 1999 program was called 'W.E.B. DuBois Symposium: "Souls of Black Folk" in the 21st Century: Implications of Race, Culture, and Pan Africanism in the Global Village'. This program honored one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, the distinguished social historian, scholar, and activist William Edward Burghardt DuBois. DuBois lived during the time period between reconstruction and the modern Civil Rights era. DuBois' work provided new inquiries for both historical and sociological inquiry into African American life and culture; new models for research and study of urban sociology; and new intellectual tools for the sociological analysis of the unique complexities of race and class in the United States. DuBois changed the way scholars and the public viewed the "Negro Problem" and put the African American struggle within the context of racism and colonialism.


Participants included:

Mary Frances Berry, Ph.D., Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania, teaches history and law

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Ph.D., director of the 21st Century DC AIDS Network organized to address the crisis in Africa, especially among women and orphans

The Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, President, Healthcare International Management Company

James C. Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage 

Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education and African American Studies, Gettysburg College

Clarence Lusane, Ph.D., assistant professor of Political Science, School of International Service, American University

Manning Marable, Ph.D., Professor of History and Political Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University 

Gay J. McDougall, Esquire, executive director of the Washington-based International Human Rights Law Group

Leith Mullings, Ph.D., Presidential Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center

Bernice Johnson Reagon, scholar, composer, singer, and activist

Her Excellency Sheila Violet Makate Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States

Program number AC408.111.