W. E. B. Du Bois on Film: An Evening with Director Rita Coburn
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University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bromery Center for the Arts (151 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, Amherst MA)
The University Libraries Annual Fall Reception celebrates the recent PBS documentary film W. E. B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause with the film’s director, Rita Coburn. Joining Coburn will be some of the scholars who participated in the film, sharing what it took to bring this project and Du Bois’s story to life, including collaboration with the Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center, which provided access to images, letters, scrapbooks, and other artifacts from the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers.