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“Regardless of the fact that in his later years Dr. Du Bois chose another path, it is incontrovertible that at the dawn of the twentieth century his was the voice that was calling to you to gather here today in this cause.”

Source: Remarks at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial, 28 August 1963

Context As NAACP executive secretary, he told the crowd that W. E. B. Du Bois, a founder of the NAACP, had died in Ghana the night before.

Roy WilkinsUnited States · 1901–1981

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