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Above: 1909 Letter to Du Bois from J.R. Clifford
The "Maple Leaf Rag", composed by Scott Joplin in 1899, created a nationwide ragtime craze. This recording was made by Joplin in 1916.
Above: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz on the context and background of W.E.B. Du Bois and the Niagara Movement.
Above: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz on the responses of W.E.B. Du Bois and Brooker T. Washington to legal segregation during the era of Jim Crow.
Above: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz discusses John Hope, educator and founding member of the Niagara Movement, whose theories on education opposed those of Booker T. Washington and his followers.
Above: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz on the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles.
