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Article: DU BOIS DEBATE WORTHY OF A MANIFESTO COMMUNIST TIES HAMPER MOVEMENT TO PAY TRIBUTE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2004
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GREAT BARRINGTON W.E.B. Du Bois may be this town's most famous
native son, known widely as a leading 20th-century intellectual and a
founder of the NAACP. But some in this Western Massachusetts
community say his legacy is tainted by politics: Du Bois was a
Communist.
For years, Great Barrington has grappled with how to pay tribute
to Du Bois. Efforts to erect markers have met with resistance from
those who say Du Bois was a traitor for seeking membership in the
American Communist Party in 1961, shortly before his death.
Now, in a measure of how feelings here about Du Bois are still
fractiously mixed, a movement to name one of two new public schools
in his honor is fueling controversy anew. ...