Slide Images for October 16

 Cakewalk on the Pier

Atlantic City

1902

Cakewalk

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

1903

Wade in the Water (performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama)
Traditional
First published in 1901

Negroe Dance Hall

Stuart Davis

1913

 Tapdancing Negro

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1914

 The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

1903

 Negro Woman (from “Types of Negroes”

compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois)

Thomas E. Askew

c.1899-1900

 Advertisement for “The Birth of a Nation

Directed by D.W. Griffith

1915

Clip from “Birth of a Nation"

D.W. Griffith

1915

 NAACP Protestors Outside a Theater

Showing “Birth of a Nation”

New York

1915

 The Awakening of Ethiopia

Meta Warrick Fuller

c. 1914

 Fredrick Douglass

Isaac Scott Hathaway

1919

 Advertisement for Banania

France

1917

The Soldier

(Used as a book cover illustration)

Edwin A. Harleston

1919