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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-08-09/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-centerville
LOCATION:Centerville Public Library 206 Gunn Road CENTERVILLE\, GA 31028
SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Centerville
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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 E
 ndowment for the Humanities and through appropriations from the Georgia Ge
 neral Assembly.\n\nThe exhibit will be on display at Centerville Public Li
 brary in Centerville from August 9 to August 22.Admission is free and open
  to the public. \n\n\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 have the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspective on the str
 uggle against discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Scott III was a
  photographer in a segregated battalion of the United States Army during W
 orld War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenwald is told
  in the travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, which draws pa
 rallels to the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935-1945 impl
 emented in Germany and Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. The exhibit is bas
 ed on a permanent exhibit of the same name which is hosted at the Anne Fra
 nk 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 t
 raveling 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 Col
 lege 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\, camo
 ufleur\, and part-time historian in S2 (Intelligence Section) of the 183rd
  Engineer Combat Battalion. On April 11\, 1945\, W.A. rode into Eisenach\,
  Germany\, on an Army convoy with the 8th Corps of General George S. Patto
 n’s 3rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segregated but no
 thing in W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the horrors he wi
 tnessed at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration cam
 ps established by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. returned to At
 lanta and completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he became circulat
 ion manager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active in the Atlanta 
 community. He served on the committee to celebrate the first official nati
 onal holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr. W.A. was a
 ppointed by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Miller to be a mem
 ber of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also appointed by P
 resident George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
 Click here for more information about the \"Witness to the Holocaust\" 20
 13 Library Tour.
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