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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-07-22/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-macon
LOCATION:Washington Memorial Library 1180 Washington Avenue MACON\, GA 3120
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SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Macon
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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. Thi
 s project is supported by the Georgia Humanities Council and the National 
 Endowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia G
 eneral Assembly. \n\nThe exhibit will be on display at Washington Memoria
 l Library in Macon from July 22 to August 9. Admission is free and open to
  the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 50th anniversary of key 
 events in the Civil Rights Movement and now citizens across Georgia will h
 ave the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspective on the struggle a
 gainst discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Scott III was a photog
 rapher in a segregated battalion of the United States Army during World Wa
 r II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenwald is told in the
  travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, which draws parallels
  to the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935-1945 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 Anne Frank in t
 he World: 1929-1945 exhibit in Sandy Springs. It was curated by the Georgi
 a Commission on the Holocaust in 1997 and revised in 2012 for the travelin
 g version.\n\nScott was the son of W.A. Scott II\, founder of first black-
 owned daily newspaper in the United States: The Atlanta Daily World (1928)
 . W.A. Scott III\, was a Business and Mather major at Morehouse College in
  1943 when he was unexpectedly drafted into the Army. Before being shipped
  overseas in 1944\, he married his high school sweetheart\, Marion Willis.
  W.A. Scott III was a reconnaissance sergeant\, photographer\, camoufleur\
 , and part-time historian in S2 (Intelligence Section) of the 183rd Engine
 er Combat Battalion. On April 11\, 1945\, W.A. rode into Eisenach\, German
 y\, on an Army convoy with the 8th Corps of General George S. Patton’s 3
 rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segregated but nothing i
 n W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the horrors he witnessed
  at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps esta
 blished by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. returned to Atlanta a
 nd completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he became circulation man
 ager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active in the Atlanta communi
 ty. He served on the committee to celebrate the first official national ho
 liday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr. W.A. was appointe
 d by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Miller to be a member of 
 the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also appointed by Presiden
 t George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.Click h
 ere for more information about the \"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Libr
 ary Tour.
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