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Article: The Nation's Century.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 10, 2000
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One hundred significant events of the 20th century in terms of freedom, human rights and social justice
1900s
1900-02: The century opens with the United States engaged in a war to suppress the movement for independence in the Philippines in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, which launched America as an imperialist power. First of many US interventions in what will be called the Third World.
1903: Publication of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois with its prophecy, "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."
1903: Songwriter ("St. Louis Blues") and band leader W.C. Handy encounters "the ...