illiam Ed ard
Burghardt DuBois as
born in Great Barrin ton,
'assachus It on Febru­
ary 23, /86. H i
rem mbered as an author,
scholar, ci iI rights
lead rand cial critic.
ntil his iTiiniz-t i:z- e 95 in
1 6, he continued hi
t for human ri ht for
Third orld P. opt s.
In this countr he is
remem fi d as on of the
foun rs of th 'ational
A 0 iation for the- Ad-
ancem nt of Colored
l'< iJJle ( :AA CPl. He as
the dir tor of :AA CP
publications and editor of
its "Crisis" magazine
from 1909 until 1934.
In the folio ing s lee­
tio , Dr. DuBois trac
th d. lopment of blac
and literature from
rli t times to 1913.
The egro is primarily
an artist. The u ual ay of
putting this is to pe dis­
dainfully of hi
....... ture. Thi me that
t only r ce hich h
h Id t bay the life
destroyin force of the
tropic, h ained
therefrom in orne ligh
compen ation n e 0
beauty p rti ularly for
ound and color, hich
ch r cteriz the race. T
o blood hich no ed
in the veins of m y of the
rnl htie t of the Ph raohs
ount for much of
Egyptian art, and ind�J
Egyptian civilization 0
much in its ori ins to the
development of the large
strain of egro blood
hich manif ted itself in
e ery grade of Egypti
soci y. .
Semitic civilization al 0
had its . egroid in-
fluences, and th con-
tinually turn to ard art
in the c of 0 eb,
on of th five great et
of Dam eu under th
Ommi d s. It a
therefore not to t.l.e
ond red at th t in
m dern days on of the
r . flu er
literatures, the Ru i
hould h v been found
y Pu h in, th grand
of a full blooded e to,
and that among the
painters of Spain a t
mulatto slave, Gomez.
Back of all this de elop­
ment by ay of contact,
comes the artistic n of
the indigeneous egro a
hown in the tone figur
of Sh rbro, the bronzes of
Benin, the marvelou
hand or in iron aDEI
other metals hich h
characterized the �
race so long th as-
Cb'UIlItS, �
cup lliced celery .-
�
by W.E.B. DuBois
11868-1963)
cheologist today, it publi hed in 1787, as the of
less and I h itation, are beginnin of that 10
ascribin the disco ery of eri of per onal appe
the elding o!)ron to t of hich Boo er T. Wash-
egro race. ' in on' Up from Sal er
To America, the e ro i the late t. B njamin
could bring only hi Banne er' al anac
music, but that a quite repre nted the
enough. The only real tifi of
m ri i ':, II t of t r nd
the egro American, e - i ued in 1792. ..,.-
cept the meagre contribu- Comin no to the first
tion of the Indian. egro d d of th nin th
music divid it elf into century e find some
many parts: the older y on fr om y the.
frican ails and chants, Afr ican Society of
the distinctively Afro- Do on, and an apo
American fol ong et to for th n egro church
religious ords and formed in Philad lphi .
Calvinistic symbolism, Paul Cuffe, dis ed with
and the ne er music America, wrote an early'
hich the slaves adapted account of S· Leone,
from surrounding themes. hile the celebrated
To this may be added the Lem Haynes, ignoring
American music built on the race question, dipped
egro them such as deeply into the e
"Su anee River:' "John England eon-
Bro n' Body," "Old troversy 181S. In
Black Joe," etc. In our 1829 came the full-
d y egro artists Ii e. voiced, hysterical.
Johnson and ill arian protest very
Coo have t en up thi color line in David
music and begun a n er Wal er's Appall bicb
and most important aroused �
deve opment, ing the tures to actiOn.
yncopated . me ur e foDowed by the
popularly known "rag
time," but d tined in the
minds of musical tudents
to great career in the
future.
The expr . on in ords
of the tragic experiences
of the egro race is to be
found in various places.
Fir ,of course, there are
th e Harri Beecher
Sto e, bo ote from
. out the . Then their p p ets:
e are bl men like Le is made a more
Es-Sadi bo 0 e the elaborate ttempt t
Ep' of the SudaJt, in history. Whitfield'
Arab' c, � t t areal history poems appeared in 1846,
of the fall of the greatest and WiDiam dis Brown
of egro em_pir , the began career of
So ay .-llf America the ed from 1847
.literary expression of until after war. lit 184S
oes h bad a reaul Douglass' autobiography
devdopment. As early made' first�, Discussion Qut!stions:
the ei hteenth century, destined to nm through 1) How T� ancient
nd even befor the editions up until Egyptian and Semetie
Revolutionary War t e in 1893. civi/ivrtio infl ced by
fir t voices of elro· in 1841 black Alri ?
authors ere beard in the mapzjne 2) What is th ori in of t
United States. 'in America, edited t>,. only real AlMrican m i'
Phyllis - George Hogarth nd J) Who th pio of
bl c poet , by the __ A.M.E. black American -litera-
the pioneer, her fi turet
. poem appearin in I'''. In the 18505 illiam
and other editions in 1774 Wells Brown publi bed hi
and 1793. Her earli Thfft Yt'aTS in Europe;
poem as in memory of
George Whitefie d. She Jam Whitfield published
further poems, and a n
folio ed by the poet aro in the person of
e ro , 01 ud It FEW H
E . b hi ranees . . arper ,
qwano- own y IS oman of no little ability
English name of Gustavus ho died 1 tely( 1911];
Vass - ho e autobic- actin R. Delaney and
of 3S0 p ,William ell wrote further
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