Prairie du Chien

In John L. Jackson’s book Harlemworld, he explains how Harlem was “made black”, both literally and figuratively, and he also describes how Harlem became, historically, a sort of epicenter of African-American culture; or as he puts it, the “black Mecca”. As for how Harlem came to be populated by a larger concentration of African-Americans than almost anywhere else, Jackson describes a brief history of the geographical location in northern Manhattan that was once known as Nieuw Haarlem, which…

"Interview with the Vampire" is one of the best-seller novels by Anne Rice that published in 1976. It is a thrilling novel, which depicts immortal vampires as the central characters. Anne Rice uses the flashback technique in the novel through which novel’s protagonist, the Vampire named Louis tells the story of his past life to a mortal journalist named Daniel during an interview. Louis wants to make the whole world aware of the existence of evil vampires. The story begins in San Francisco where…

An early Civil Rights Debate In the late 19th century, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubious were the most influential African Americans in America. They both were philosophers who wanted justice and equality for black people; however, they both had different methods and perspectives in how to tackle the racism that was going on during that time period. Although they had their differences it is undoubted that the dispute between both of them shaped the course of history for African Americans,…

The great W.E.D. DuBois (William Edward Burghardt DuBois) had an essential role that played with the NAACP (National Association for the Color People). DuBois traveled around the world to education African Americans to teach them you can have the knowledge to be someone. He accomplished more then what people could do in that time period; he was an historian, sociologist, author, and an editor. W.E.D. DuBois was a proud African American who disliked discrimination; loved his education,…

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the greatest civil rights activists and writers of this era. In his story The Souls of Black Folk, which is one of his more famous works, he addressed the experiences of African Americans in America. That is where he writes about how African-Americans experience the world through a veil. This concept helped many understand the pain African Americans felt. What DuBois wrote was very true and addressed the difficulties of being African American then as well as in today’s…

W.E.B. DuBois is generally regarded as one of greatest African-American scholars and civil rights activist in American history. But one issue troubling historians is their personal portrait of DuBois in their works. No one questioned his resume, the brilliant African-American scholar, author, and civil rights activist during the Progressive Era. In the discussion of DuBois, one controversial issue has been a debate over his personality. One the one hand, some historians argue that he was an…

After the world war one and somewhere between the 1930`s, a great cultural event happened in America. The jazz era also known as the Harlem Renaissance had a lot of people flocking to Harlem, New York. According to Richard Wormser from PBS, he states Harlem was considered the mecca to which black writers, artist, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars traveled. Many came to express their talents freely, and escape oppression in the south and the caste system. It was during this time that…

Two great African-American leaders of the 19th and 20th century were W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. These two men are similar as they both want educational equality for African-Americans. Washington wants rational education for African-Americans, but to continue living separately from whites. Though DuBois thinks that African-Americans should have the best education along side with their equal rights. Booker T. Washington was born April 5,1856 as a slave on a small farm in West Virginia…

Back in the day, when slavery was still happening, people from different years had their own opinion and versions of slavery. Over the years, these opinions and versions of those peoples had brought controversies all over the whole. Which in one way or another had divided people’s point of view. Not to mention that those people opinions and versions of the circumstances are their own versions, in which all they said are right, from their own experiences. These two people are best known for…

Andrea Burns book From Store Front to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement is a fascinating interpretation of the development of the African- American Museums. Her argument that in order to understand the development of African- American Museums it is important to first look at where these museums were built and the goals in which the embodied; “Understanding the origins of this evolution helps us contextualize and historicize black public history, from its modest…