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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-05-16/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-trenton
LOCATION:Dade County Public Library 102 Court St TRENTON\, GA 30752
SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Trenton
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DESCRIPTION:The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in partnership with the
  Georgia Public Library Service is bringing the travelling exhibit “Witn
 ess to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwa
 ld” to libraries throughout the state from May to November of 2013.This 
 project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National En
 dowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia Gen
 eral Assembly.\n\nThe exhibit will be on display at the Dade County Public
  Library from May 16th to May 29th. It will be presented to the community 
 by Viki E. Staley\, Executive Director of the Georgia Commission on the Ho
 locaust\, and Dr. Jerry Legge\, University of Georgia\, on May 16th at 7pm
 . Following the presentation of the exhibit\, Dr. Legge will speak. The ev
 ent is free and open to the public.\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 50th annive
 rsary of key events in the Civil Rights Movement and now citizens across G
 eorgia will have the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspective on t
 he struggle against discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Scott III
  was a photographer in a segregated battalion of the United States Army du
 ring World War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenwald i
 s told in the travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, which dr
 aws parallels to the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935-194
 5 implemented in Germany and Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. The exhibit 
 is based on a permanent exhibit of the same name which is hosted at the An
 ne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 exhibit in Sandy Springs. It was curated 
 by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in 1997 and revised in 2012 for
  the traveling version. \n\nScott was the son of W.A. Scott II\, founder 
 of first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States: The Atlanta Dai
 ly World (1928). W.A. Scott III\, was a Business and Mather major at Moreh
 ouse College in 1943 when he was unexpectedly drafted into the Army. Befor
 e being shipped overseas in 1944\, he married his high school sweetheart\,
  Marion Willis. W.A. Scott III was a reconnaissance sergeant\, photographe
 r\, camoufleur\, and part-time historian in S2 (Intelligence Section) of t
 he 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion. On April 11\, 1945\, W.A. rode into Ei
 senach\, Germany\, on an Army convoy with the 8th Corps of General George 
 S. Patton’s 3rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segregate
 d but nothing in W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the horro
 rs he witnessed at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentra
 tion camps established by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. return
 ed to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he became 
 circulation manager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active in the 
 Atlanta community. He served on the committee to celebrate the first offic
 ial national holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr. W.
 A. was appointed by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Miller to 
 be a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also appoin
 ted by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial 
 Council.\n\nClick here for more information about the \"Witness to the Ho
 locaust\" 2013 Library Tour.
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