W. E. B. Du Bois

Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, Historian, activist and University Professor, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1910. A graduate of both Fisk University and the University of Chicago he received a BA and an MA in history from Fisk in 1933 and completed his PhD in History in 1939 at the University of Chicago. A lifelong supporter of civil rights he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. on his book, Stride Toward Freedom and in 1959 he wrote a biography of King entitled Crusader without Violence.…

The Harlem was the culture’s name that was given to the revolution or rather the art, and culture that exploded post the world war and was prominent in the middle of the year 1930. Harlem was the neighborhood that was situated near Manhattan. There were people from the south that came in to deliver their art, like the poems with no barriers and the same was a ‘New Negro’ revolution found therein. It was a cultural place where the blacks had a pride to express their art. Hence, the Harlem…

StreetCar Named Desire is a realist play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. The play is set in New Orleans after the second world war. StreetCar Named desire can be interpreted in many different ways as it has several themes which are open ended. Some of the main themes in StreetCar Named Desire are the clash between the two world, New America vs. Old America, Conflict between Classes. Much of the story, characters were found in Williams’s drama was mined from the playwright’s own life.…

In 1926, Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, “Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life” (Langston Hughes). Langston Hughes is a famous African American author and poet, who lived from 1902 to 1967. He wrote in a modernist style during the time he was an author, which was from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is one of the many African American writers that helped…

The Great Migration was the movement of approximately 6 million African Americans out of the South to the North that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Jacob Lawrence created The Migration of the Negro in 1940-1941 to represent the relocation of African Americans from the South to the North. In his sixty panels, he was able to depict the social struggles in both the North and South and the people’s dreams and frustrations of one day obtaining better education and economic equality in the North.…

In New York, African Americans were free after the 1800's, but being free was not the end of many hardships. As the African American struggle to be free ends, new struggles would begin under their new title of "free." After Emancipation, African Americans had a mixture of feelings. Excitement to be free to live as people, not property. Anxiety over where to go, finding work, staying alive. Many free black Americans were refused work. Many whites were angry, and decided if they didn't own you…

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois are both African-American leaders/activists. Washington was born enslaved on April 5th 1856 in Virginia. Dubois was born in Barrington Massachusetts on February 23 1868. Washington went to a college in Alabama called Tuskegee University. Dubois went to a college in Massachusetts called Harvard University. They both made a big difference in the world. While Dubois attended Harvard University , Fisk University and University of Berlin. In Harvard University…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of many changes like cultural, social, and modern art that occurred in Harlem during the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. “Literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts,” were major elements of the Harlem Renaissance (Harlem Renaissance. Britannica.com, n.d., para.1). Literature, art, music, and entertainment were also a form of freedom. African Americans used these key elements to becoming equal in American society. African Americans soared with…

In the article Strivings of the Negro People, published in 1897 by W.E.B. Du Bois, famously coined an idea that would later on be the basis for many in the Civil Rights Movement. This idea, double consciousness, was the daily struggle of African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. [By] double consciousness, Du Bois referred most importantly to an internal conflict in the African American individual between what was "African" and what was "American" (Mocombe). In this sense, the spiritual…

This idea of self-image was import to DuBois, who believed that many African Americans had began to believe their status as second class citizens. Dubois. challenged the oppression of whites and had increasingly radical, for the time, stances on politics and argued that in planning our movements, in guiding our future development, that at times we rise above the pressing, but smaller questions of separate schools and cars, wage-discrimination and lynch law, to survey the whole questions of race…