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URL:https://holocaust.georgia.gov/events/2013-09-09/witness-holocaust-2013-
 library-tour-leesburg
LOCATION:Oakland Library 445 Oak and Parkway West LEESBURG\, GA 31763
SUMMARY:\"Witness to the Holocaust\" 2013 Library Tour: Leesburg
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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 Oakland Library in Le
 esburg from September 9th to September 20th. Admission is free and open to
  the public.\n\nThe exhibit will be presented to the community by Dr. Jerr
 y Legge\, University of Georgia\, on September 12th at 7pm. Following the 
 presentation of the exhibit\, Dr. Legge will speak. The event is free and 
 open to the public.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 50th an
 niversary of key events in the Civil Rights Movement and now citizens acro
 ss Georgia will have the opportunity to gain a uniquely local perspective 
 on the struggle against discrimination. William Alexander “W.A.” Scott
  III was a photographer in a segregated battalion of the United States Arm
 y during World War II. His witness testimony of the liberation of Buchenwa
 ld is told in the travelling exhibit “Witness to the Holocaust”\, whic
 h 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 exhi
 bit is based on a permanent exhibit of the same name which is hosted at th
 e Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 exhibit in Sandy Springs. It was cura
 ted 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\, founde
 r of first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States: The Atlanta D
 aily World (1928). W.A. Scott III\, was a Business and Mather major at Mor
 ehouse College in 1943 when he was unexpectedly drafted into the Army. Bef
 ore being shipped overseas in 1944\, he married his high school sweetheart
 \, Marion Willis. W.A. Scott III was a reconnaissance sergeant\, photograp
 her\, camoufleur\, 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 Georg
 e S. Patton’s 3rd Army. At the time\, the United States Army was segrega
 ted but nothing in W.A.’s background could have prepared him for the hor
 rors he witnessed at Buchenwald. Buchenwald was one of the largest concent
 ration camps established by the Nazis within the German borders. W.A. retu
 rned to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. In 1948 he becam
 e circulation manager of the Atlanta Daily World and was very active in th
 e Atlanta community. He served on the committee to celebrate the first off
 icial national holiday commemorating the life of Martin Luther King\, Jr. 
 W.A. was appointed by Georgia Governors Joe Frank Harris and Zell Miller t
 o be a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He was also appo
 inted by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memoria
 l Council.Click here for more information about the \"Witness to the Holo
 caust\" 2013 Library Tour.
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