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This Day at Law
NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born
W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born
on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B.
DuBois Papers at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI
files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation
with "communist front groups."
Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. in perpetuity
On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to
the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American
Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to
establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, an internationally
controversial military prison was built at Guantanamo to house
prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American
forces.