Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents: W.E.B. Du Bois and Africana

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Hours:	6:00pm
Ages:	Adults
Cost:	Free see below
Category:	Special Events

In honor of the 175th Anniversary of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the nation’s oldest garden cemetery and the final resting place of many remarkable individuals, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of African and African American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, will give a lecture, “W.E.B. Du Bois and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience” at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square in the Rabb Auditorium on October 18, 2006 at 6 p.m.

This event is free, but please call 617-607-1995 to RSVP to ensure a spot. Contact Bree Detamore Harvey, Director of Public Programs, 617-547-7105 ext. 1945

Aboout Professor Henry Louis Gates
Professor Gates is the co-editor of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, an encyclopedia of the history and culture of Africa and the events of the African Diaspora. Mr. Du Bois was the visionary behind the book, and was working on it at the time of his death in 1963.

The encyclopedia contains 3,500 entries, including references to Harriet Ann Jacobs, the author of a slave narrative, and Josephine Saint Pierre Ruffin, a journalist, civil rights leader, and suffragist, both of whom are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Additionally, the encyclopedia contains an entry on Edmonia Lewis, the first internationally recognized African American sculptor. Her sculpture Hygeia, one of the few surviving pieces of her work, prominently marks a grave at the Cemetery.

About the Mount Auburn Cemetary 175th Anniversary
Mount Auburn Cemetery is celebrating its 175th Anniversary with a year of lectures, music, and other events at the Cemetery. This lecture, part of the “Facets of Mount Auburn: Celebrating 175 Years of a Boston Jewel” lecture series, is a fitting event for Mount Auburn, which bears a history free of discrimination; people of all races have always been buried there.

This event is co-sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Please call for further information.

COST

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Free, but please call 617-607-1995 to R.S.V.P.

WEBSITE

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www.mountauburn.org

LOCATION

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Boston Public Library, Rabb Auditorium,, Boston, MA, 02116 map
Phone: 617-547-7105 ext