Talented negroes who lead their race

Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer; W. E. B. Du Bois, historian and civil rights activist; Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and novelist; Henry Ossawa Tanner, painter; Daniel Hale Williams, MD, cardiologist and surgeon; and Timothy Thomas Fortune, civil rights leader and journalist. Accompanies an article critical of African American achievement alongside biographies of prominent figures in the African American community.

Publication date: 1898-11-06

Size: 19 x 22.5 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Subject(s):

• African Americans--Men--1890-1900
• Race relations--United States--1890-1900
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
• Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937
• Williams, Daniel Hale, 1856-1931
• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928

Genre(s):

• Portrait drawings

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (November 6, 1898), Part 5, p. 43

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg