60 years after the end of slavery; the children and Grandchildren of American Slaves would create an intellectual and creative movement that would serve as a foundation for what would eventually develop into African American Demands for Equality, the demands for the end of colonialism in Africa, and the end of segregation in the United States. Among the particapants in this movement were Fisk College graduate and Harvard Univeristy PHD W.E.B. Dubois who founded the NAACP who would eventually go on to bank roll the landmark Court cas Brown versus Board of Education which would overturn Plessy vs. Ferguson which made segregation legal in the first place; Langston Hughes, Grandson of a United States Senator, Columbia University Student who had to drop out because his Mexican Plantation owning father refused to finance a college career with the major Rnglish rather than Engineering, eventual graduate of Lincoln University who would coin the famous poem I Dream of World which would definitely serve as a starting point for the famous Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King’s Speech I have a Dream; Barnard College Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston; and many others.
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