Honoring Dr Du Bois
Shortly before his death, Martin Luther King delivered a speech at Carnegie Hall in honor of another legendary black radical: W. E. B. Du Bois. We reprint it here in full.
W. E. B. Dubois with Dr Mary McLeod Bethune and Lincoln University president Dr Horace Mann Bond, after receiving the university’s Alpha Medallion Awards in 1950. Tullio Saba / Flickr
Tonight we assemble here to pay tribute to one of the most remarkable men of our time.
Dr Du Bois was not only an intellectual giant exploring the frontiers of knowledge, he was in the first place a teacher. He would have wanted his life to teach us something about our tasks of emancipation.
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