When Sophia Smith made plans to bequeath her fortune to the foundation of a women’s college in the sleepy town of Northampton, Massachusetts, she laid the foundation for one of America’s premiere women’s colleges: “1) the educational advantages provided by it would be equal t[...]
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W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin
No two men of equal stature could have come from different places than Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois One was born during slavery and worked menial jobs to obtain his education while the other was raised amongst a relatively well-to-do family with roots in one of New England’s most [...]
The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition
A major development of the nineteenth century was the emergence of world’s fairs, all of which served to entertain visitors and impress them with the technological and cultural advances of Western nations and their colonies which increased exponentially–and dazzlingly–after the 185[...]
