Their Eyes Were watching God First Blog

In the first chapter we see Janie coming back home after a long time, but when she finally gets there, she is surprised by what she finds waiting there for her. The townspeople are all silently judging everything about her, and in the most rude and vulgar ways. Janie expected to come back to a pleasant and happy environment, to be sadly mistaken.

W.E.B. DuBois

W.E.B. Was the most prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. But He was also extremely well known for helping to found the Niagara Movement, which was a call for opposition to racial segregation as well as policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington. He was also a successful Author who published over 22 books.