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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by astrology[/i] [br] Pixies: UMass to put papers of W.E.B. Du Bois online Edit Link April 4, 2009 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments UMass to put papers of W.E.B. Du Bois online Source: 4-3-09 (12-31-69) The University of Massachusetts in Amherst said Friday it would scan, catalog, digitize and put online papers of civil rights movement pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. The university’s W.E.B. Du Bois Library has an estimated 100,000 diaries, letters, photographs and other items related to Du Bois, who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. UMass received a $200,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to put the collection online during the two-year project, which begins in July. The collection includes correspondence with other influential African-Americans, such as Booker T. Washington and Langston Hughes, as well as important public figures of his day, such as Albert Einstein and Mohandas Gandhi. One of Cox’s favorite pieces is a menu signed by those who attended the first meeting of the Niagara Movement, a precursor to the NAACP. The group was forced to meet in Ontario, Canada, because no restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y., would serve them. Read More… IT’S EDUCATIONAL http://dodgone.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/pixies-umass-to-put-papers-of-web-du-bois-online/ I'm a pistolero, i'm not shakin in my boots I'm the ruler of this moon, if u move I shoots [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.