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..
The founding member of the New York City chapter, WEB DuBois, said the Boule' was created to keep the black professional away from the ranks of Marcus Garvey.. (One thing that needs to be pointed out is the time period. Just over a decade after the founding of the Boule', Marcus Garvey's 'Back to Afrika' movement (also known as the 'Colonization Movement') and his newspaper, the Negro World, was reaching a million-plus people without tv or radio.