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Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois
Age: 95 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: August 27
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
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