The New Black Images at the Paris Expo of 1900

PHOTOGRAPHY: W.E.B Du Bois' Talented Tenth In Pictures

Visitors to the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 were introduced to escalators, pictorial panoramas, the Paris Metro and the first films with sound. They also encountered -- in a section of the vast world's fair aptly titled exposé nègre, or Negro exposition -- an unusual photo exhibit: hundreds of images of black professionals and college students.

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