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539: David Levering Lewis

Decades ago, he shook hands with W. E. B. Du Bois, born in 1868. It seems impossible, but then again Einstein was a contemporary of Billy the Kid. Lewis went on to write a Pultzer-Prize winning biography of Du Bois. Einstein went on to be Einstein. Presented with the Maysles Documentary Center. Music: Henrique Prince.

Person: D. E. B. Du Bois
Place: a Catholic school in Little Rock
Thing: Harlem Tattler
Randy’s Person: Meyer Lurio

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