The evening of October 30, 2005, the Foundation held its annual benefit dinner, with Taylor Branch as the keynote speaker. Emceed by James Fallows, the dinner was a farewell celebration of The Atlantic Monthly, which moved to Washington, D.C. in January after 149 years in Boston. For the occasion, the magazine published a handsome and substantial commemorative booklet entitled The Struggle for Civil Rights. It includes Julia Ward Howe’s poem “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862), Frederick Douglass’s “Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage” (1867), Ralph Waldo Emerson's "American Civilization" (1862), Booker T. Washington's "Education of Mind, Skill of Hand" (1896), W.E.B. Du Bois's "Beyond the Veil" (1897), Quincy Ewing's "The Heart of the Race Problem" (1909), Randall Kennedy's "My Race Problem--and Ours" (1997) and other historic articles from The Atlantic’s archives. The booklet has 80 pages and includes 12 essays.
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