Readings:

Psalm 113:1-7
Jeremiah 34:8-18
Galatians 2:15-20
Mark 3:23-29

Preface of Baptism


PRAYER (traditional language)
Gracious God, we offer thanks for the witness of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, passionate prophet of civil rights, whose scholarship advanced the dignity of the souls of black folk; and we pray that we, like him, may use our gifts to do justice in the Name of Jesus Christ our Liberator and Advocate; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

PRAYER (contemporary language)
Gracious God, we thank you for the witness of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, passionate prophet of civil rights, whose scholarship advanced the dignity of the souls of black folk; and we pray that we, like him, may use our gifts to do justice in the Name of Jesus Christ our Liberator and Advocate; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

This commemoration was provisionally approved at the 2009 General Convention.

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W. E. B. DuBOIS

SOCIOLOGIST, 3 August 1963

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana.

Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed W. E. B. Du Bois on his list of the 100 Greatest African Americans.

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