Date

Topic

Presenters

9/19,22

Tom Brown at Fisk, The Conservation of Races and Philadelphia Negro

Gretchen Casserly, Angelique Douyon, Mary Melvin

9/26,29

The racial climate

Bonita Williams, Annesha Quann

10/3,6

Emergence as Washington's rival and successor: the impact of The Souls of Black Folk.

Prof. Pearson

10/10,13

The Niagra Movement

Jon Corbett, Kingsley Amadioh

10/17,20

Crisis magazine, Du Bois and the Suffrage Movement

Jenny Frett, Heather Janitz, Gina Brockenbrough

(note date correction)

Harlem Renaissance and Pan-Africanism

Marissa Manners, Tamika Rhodes

10/31, 11/3

Du Bois's growing Pan-Africanism, feud with Marcus Garvey.

Eric Scheekloth, Phillip Major

11/7,10

Du Bois's growing marginalization as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, Dark Princess

Christine Brusgard, Noelle Petruzelli

11/14,17

Break with NAACP, Du Bois's controversial writings on black education and economic development.

Jennifer Giampolo, Jessica Hoertel

11/21

Black Reconstruction

Reanin Mc Roberts

11/28

The backlash against Du Bois's growing socialism

Mark De Campo, Ed Antrobus

12/1

Encyclopaedia Africana, Communism

Melissa Evans, Melissa Reeper