It shall not be thought, as it is abroad, that the colored people are brutes and that these murderous lynchings are justified. Of being more than menials?" So I was filled with a determination to do something. Is it possible that any of them are capable "Why," they would say, "I thought all colored persons were ignorant and incapable of education. In England and Scotland were surprised that I was possessed of sufficient intelligence to talk lucidly. While there I was more struck than ever with the necessity of having some literature to correct the prevailing opinions of people abroad about the mental and social capacities of the colored people in the United States. The negative opinions she heard about African Americans strengthened her belief that something needed to be done. In the year before the Exhibition opened, she lectured across England. Reach of the fair to present a positive portrayal of African Americans to the world. She came to Chicago to encourage blacks to boycott the 1893 Columbian Exhibition and to use the international Wells was forcibly driven out of Memphis, Tennessee, due to her verbal and written condemnation of lynching. The Exposition's exhibits generally characterized people of color as primitives, or worse. But despite the intelligence and eloquence of the orators, fairgoers were mainly exposed to racist and dehumanizing stereotypes. These speeches were well attended and received. Ranging from medicine to moral and social reforms were raised at the forums. Unfortunately, it was only printed in English due to limited funding.Īfrican Americans were best represented at the open forums sponsored by the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Chicago's World's Fair where several blacks were invited as speakers. To use their building which assured that the pamphlet was distributed to park guests. The Haitian government allowed protestors The pamphlet was written to make international visitors aware of both the achievements of blacks since emancipation and the difficult and dangerous conditions they continued to face after slavery. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnett wrote a protest pamphlet intended for distribution at the fair in multiple languages: The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's ColumbianĮxposition. Blacks were allowed to participate as low-level workers, performers, speakers, and, of course, paying guests, but white organizers kept them from any meaningful positions of influence or authority. While Exposition organizers planned an immense, broad-sweeping attraction that would dazzle fairgoers with the achievements of many nations (with an emphasis on American accomplishments), they refused to give African Americans a voice in the development More important, Tesla’s victory over Edison in the Battle of the Currents was a win with far-reaching impact: Tesla proved to the world that A/C was superior to D/C for safely transmitting power over long distances to a large population, and A/C became the standard system of our modern power grid.For African American leaders, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, popularly known as the "World's Fair," seemed the perfect opportunity to exhibit the contributions, achievements, and racial progress of African Americans in the nearly 30 years since the When the 1893 Chicago World Fair was illuminated using Nikola Tesla’s inventions for A/C electricity and fluorescent lighting, it was a spectacle that amazed the world. Tesla and Westinghouse team up to outshine Edison at the 1893 Chicago World Fair. But George Westinghouse, armed with Tesla’s patents for A/C power, bid $399,000 and won the contract. Edison submitted a bid for $554,000 using his D/C concept. Inventors were invited to submit bids to light the fair using electricity. The battle came to a head at the 1893 Chicago World Fair (also known as the Columbian Exposition in honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas). In the lead were Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, with Tesla’s alternating current (A/C) concept going up against Edison’s direct current (D/C) system in what is known as the “Battle of the Currents.” When the Chicago World Fair was illuminated using Nikola Tesla’s neon fluorescent lighting powered by his A/C system, it was a spectacle that amazed the world. In 1893 the world’s innovators were engaged in a race to harness electricity to provide power for humanity.
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