By the start of the 20th century, a second upstart style of skiing competition had joined the older established cross-country skiing races and ski-jumping contests of Nordic skiing. The downhill races of this Alpine skiing, developed in the mountainous terrain of the Alpsâ¦
Exhibit of American Negroes at the Paris Exposition. Photographer unknown. Photograph undated, in Review of Reviews, vol. 22. As the world turned its back on the nineteenth century and entered the twentieth, civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois assessed the social state of American society looking forward. In his famous book The Souls of Black Folk, he prophetically claimed, For the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line..
W. E. B. Du Bouis and Marcus Garvey approached the civil rights movement of their time with almost perfectly opposing strategies. W. E. B. Du Bois wanted black people to be accepted into American society and he believed that the intellectual elite of the black community should lead them in this direction. Marcus Garvey tried to lead the masses of black people towards black purity of race and culture through black nationalism.