Post date: May 16, 2011 11:04:40 AM
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Final Pre-Festival Discussion - W.E.B. Du Bois - Tue May 17 @ 7:00 pm
"W.E.B. Du Bois' Legacy in Greenville Today" led by Abel Bartley, PhD and Call Me Mister, Graduate Greenville, Urban League Youth Development and YW Teens. Hughes Main Library, downtown Greenville. Free. For more info
New This Year! - OLLI summer class "Behind the Scenes at Chautauqua" taught by George Frein. Tuesdays June 7 - 28 from 1-3pm. You don't need to be an OLLI member to take summer classes. Fee is $30. To register: furman.edu/OLLI
Celebrity Lunch with Festival Cast - Father's Day Sun June 19 @ 12:30pm
Join Mark Twain, Frances Perkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Albert Einstein for lunch and a show - at The Phoenix, Greenville's Inn. Map Tickets are $30. Send your check to: Greenville Chautauqua, 11 Rock Side Ct, Greenville, SC 29615 To order online
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On the Passing of the First-Born
W.E.B. Du Bois was a university professor with a Harvard PhD living in Atlanta, the most middle class black city in America when his two-year old son Burghardt contracted diphtheria and died without medical attention. In 1899, in Atlanta there were no appropriate medical facilities for blacks, and the black doctors feared to treat a boy so white. For the rest of his life, Du Bois waged a relentless battle against Ignorance.
Find out more about W.E.B. Du Bois when Charles Pace portrays him at the Chautauqua Festival June 20, 21,22