Answer:
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Explanation:
W.E.B. Du Bois was the African-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and he applied his expertise in the writing of "The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study" (1899) and "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903).
Du Bois was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Famous Literary figures on the 1920's were:
William Faulkner - He was a Nobel Prize winning novelist of the American South, he actively wrote from 1919 until is death in 1962. His most acclaimed novels were The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930).
Ernest Hemingway - He was a Nobel Prize winning American writer of novels and short stories. His first collection of stories called In Our Time was published in 1925.
Sinclair Lewis - He was an American novelist and social critic who wrote widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American.
The others -
Rudolph Valentino was an Italian-born American actor who was idolized as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s.
Josephine Baker - American-born French dancer and singer who symbolized the beauty and vitality of black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.
Bessie Smith - American Blues Singer in the 1920's and 30's.
Christopher Columbus is the answer most likely to be correct but, there is an argument for Leaf Erikson
At the beginning of the spring of 1945 everything was now ready for a decisive action by the Allies that would put an end to the war. In January, the Allies had rejected the Ardennes offensive, the last major German attack on the Western front.
After the failure of this operation the German army was almost exhausted and the remaining German forces were unable to resist the Allied counteroffensive in Europe. Moreover, in February-March 1945 the advance in the Rhineland had allowed the Allies to seize the bridge of Ludendorff, in Remagen (which would have allowed the Anglo-American troops to easily cross the Rhine river) and to inflict enormous losses on the Wehrmacht (about 400,000 soldiers killed in combat and 280,000 taken prisoner).
On the eastern front the Red Army had conquered most of Poland and was pushing towards Hungary and Czechoslovakia stopping on the Oder-Neisse line. The advance of Soviet troops had engulfed many German combat units limiting the ability of Hitler and the German generals to provide reinforcements for defense on the Rhine.
The plessy decision had tremendous effect in society at large at the time as it legitimized racial segregation on an institutional level.
By separating public facilities such as schools and going as far to even exclude black people from transiting public space like many beaches, restaurants and hotels, African-American institutions were effectively put at a huge disadvantage in every regard. Some of the consequences were a massive peak in aliteracy within the black community, for example, and the denial to their political leaders from continuing to advance in a system that removed their ability to further participate. In the south, they also were almost completely erased from voting registrations.
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