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Berea College Commencement Address

Berea College Commencement Address Berea College CommenCement address Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Part One: Introduction Everyone fortunate enough to participate in a ritual such as this, in an arena such as this, arrived here with a tremendous amount of love and support. Let's give it up to the people who made it possible for you to get this marvelous education, the parents of the Class of 2007! Let me make it clear that no one remembers their commencement speaker, not even me! So I promise to be brief. Thank you, Mr. President, for this honor. I am proud to be here on the campus of this great college, dedicated to the principle that "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth." I am proud to stand here with the other honorees Jean E. Fairfax and bell hooks. I am proud to follow in the footsteps of the previous honorees you have invited to speak to graduating classes, including Bishop Desmond Tutu in 2005, and John Egerton, the civil rights historian, in 1996. And I am proud to walk along the same paths where so many great Berea students once walked before us: Carter Woodson (1903), the dean of Howard http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Berea College Commencement Address

Gates, Henry Louis.
Appalachian Review , Volume 36 (3) – Sep 28, 2008
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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2008 Berea College
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Berea College CommenCement address Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Part One: Introduction Everyone fortunate enough to participate in a ritual such as this, in an arena such as this, arrived here with a tremendous amount of love and support. Let's give it up to the people who made it possible for you to get this marvelous education, the parents of the Class of 2007! Let me make it clear that no one remembers their commencement speaker, not even me! So I promise to be brief. Thank you, Mr. President, for this honor. I am proud to be here on the campus of this great college, dedicated to the principle that "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth." I am proud to stand here with the other honorees Jean E. Fairfax and bell hooks. I am proud to follow in the footsteps of the previous honorees you have invited to speak to graduating classes, including Bishop Desmond Tutu in 2005, and John Egerton, the civil rights historian, in 1996. And I am proud to walk along the same paths where so many great Berea students once walked before us: Carter Woodson (1903), the dean of Howard

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Sep 28, 2008

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