After finishing my research paper, I feel so grateful to have the opportunity to delve so deeply into an issue I have barely scraped the issue of. Throughout the research process reading the texts of Anna Julia Cooper, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois, especially, I gained such a greater appreciation from the figureheads of such a tumultuous time in Black American history. Not only has my desire grown to research within American history, but the research process made me grateful for the lengths that have been gone through to preserve it. Resources like The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives were integral in providing the resources that allowed me to complete my research project. Finally, after completing the research process, my energy to share my work with the world has only increased. I am so excited about the opportunities to present my research to The Columbia University community and, more broadly, both at the International Laidlaw Conference and at the National Research Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. I continue to be so grateful for the opportunity to be apart of this program and I can only imagine how much I will grow over the next year because of it.