AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE SPEAKER AT ETHICAL CULTURE TODAY

 

11 a.m.

William E. Gaines has a long-standing interest in African-American leadership, both historical and for the future. His talk on W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington will include: background of the two leaders (early life, education and race relations); Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech and W.E.B. Du Bois’s reaction to the speech; Technical Education vs. Higher Education; obstacles in achieving civil rights; lynching; Southern Democrats; and the impact of the two leaders on race relations in the 20th and 21st century.
Mr. Gaines did his undergraduate work at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and later earned Master's Degrees in History and in Education Administration. 

He has taught at Union County College and Essex County College as well as for 26 years at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he teaches World History and African History. In 1989, as a German Marshall Fund Exchange Recipient, he traveled to Germany where he lectured on W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington. A resident of the Maplewood-South Orange communities for 30 years, he was a South Orange Villager of the Month in 1996. In 2002, he was honored with a NAACP Community Award and was profiled in the “Neat Things Done By Teachers” column in the New Jersey Education Association Review. He was chair of the Discipline Review Committee at Columbia High School that wrote the report resulting in a successful alternative high school program in South Orange-Maplewood, and he is the Coordinator for the Columbia High School African-American History Challenge Bowl team that has won 4 of 5 competitions at the state level. 

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