How the Black aristocracy of the Gilded Age ushered in a new era of education and freedom

W. E. B. Du Bois with the Fisk University class of 1888. Digital Collections, The New York Public Library The Gilded Age was a period toward the end of the 19th century marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Just a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed […]

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