A draft eulogy written by W. E. B. Du Bois about Bert Williams, 1922.

In this short draft of an eulogy of Bert Williams, written by the famous African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois, Du Bois praises Williams for beings “a great comedian, a great Negro, a great man.”

Citation Information
Du Bois, W. E. B., “Bert Williams,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/af919be3a07d1656cb97329a49037712.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries via Digital Commonwealth.

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