Pauline Hopkins, a Black high school student in Boston, won the first prize of 'ten dollars in gold,' offered by the Congregational Publishing Society of Boston in 1895 for her essay on the 'Evils of Intemperance and Their Remedies.' She went on to become a writer for theColored American Magazine. In the early 1900s her articles and novels were important protest literature, in which she addressed problems and issues on race relations 'thought to be unspeakable' and not touched by other journals.