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By Amy Bass
At the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana on the age of ninety five, greater than a part century after cofounding the NAACP. 5 years after his loss of life, citizens of serious Barrington, the small Massachusetts city the place Du Bois used to be born in 1868, proposed spotting his legacy during the construction of a memorial park at the web site of his formative years domestic. Supported by means of the neighborhood newspaper and well-liked nationwide figures together with Harry Belafonte and Sydney Poitier, the trouble to honor Du Bois trigger an acrimonious debate that bitterly divided the city. Led by way of the neighborhood bankruptcy of the Veterans of international Wars, rivals in comparison Du Bois to Hitler, vilifying him as an anti-American traitor for his communist sympathies, his critique of yankee race kinfolk, and his pan-Africanist worldview.In these approximately Him Remained Silent, Amy Bass presents the 1st unique account of the conflict over Du Bois and his legacy, in addition to a heritage of Du Bois's youth in Massachusetts. Bass locates the roots of the hostility to memorialize Du Bois in a chilly warfare worldview that decreased complex politics to a vehement hatred of either communism and, extra greatly, anti-Americanism. The town's response was once intensified, she argues, through the racism encoded inside chilly conflict patriotism.Showing the efficiency of winning, frequently hidden, biases, these approximately Him Remained Silent is an unforeseen historical past of ways racism, patriotism, and international politics performed out in a brand new England group divided on how-or even if-to honor the reminiscence of its maximum citizen.
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To some degree, perhaps, he was correct. In many ways, the generosity of Great Barrington to Du Bois and his mother seems out of the ordinary. He notes, for example, C. C. ” Taylor, a banker, owned a herd of milking cows just off Main Street and offered unlimited milk to Du Bois and his mother whenever they wanted. “I remember those morning walks up to the great elm on our corner . . ,” Du Bois writes, “up to the Taylor home and the delicious fresh milk” (81). However, race relations, as Du Bois remembers them, were complicated in Great Barrington: Over against this general basic community of white Americans were two groups.
Because these fears often easily translated into racial terms, the context of the Cold War, perhaps more than anything else, largely determined what Du Bois’s legacy was to be in the place of his birth. For so many reasons, Du Bois could have been heralded by his hometown as the poster child of an American success story, one who had been supported by his mostly white, rural community to the highest levels of education, becoming an important intellectual with an unquestionable legacy to pass on.
According to UMass anthropologist Robert Paynter, the Burghardt farm was one of many that African Americans created along one road beginning early in the nineteenth century. 19 Du Bois remembers the house on this land to have been “sturdy, small and old-fashioned” (64). His mother’s family had lived in this section of town, according to Du Bois, for almost two hundred years when the “black Burghardts,” which he describes as “a group of African Negroes descended from Tom,” arrived in Great Barrington after being brought to the nearby Hudson Valley by Dutch slave traders (62).