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very proud of you that you are brave enough to come.”

I said, “It didn't take any courage, I assure you.”

I began to catch on though to the fact that it wasn't ordinarily done. I thought, “Well, there's nothing to be said about this now. The fat's in the fire, if it is fat.”

So I went out and had a very pleasant time. She gave a tea in her faculty lounge. The guests were both white and colored, but were all members of the university. They were all people who were teachers at the university, or who were business managers of the university, or at Spelman College. The tea was served by some of the senior students at Spelman College, done just as it was done in any other college. It was a small tea. I don't suppose there were than thirty or forty people there.

I met there for the first time a Mr. W.E.B. DuBois. I don't know that I had ever heard about him before, but I have since. He was a member of the faculty of Atlanta University at that time. I learned afterwards, by perhaps his own actions afterwards, that he was led into a number of situations where his political purity was doubted. I don't know the details of that at all, but I remember meeting him and recognizing that here was a cross-breed situation, all right. He was very pale, very light, and had very marked and distinguished Roman features. He had