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This painting, created by Horrace Pippin, shows a black man helping a wounded white man.

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This painting, created by Aaron Douglas, shows a young boy with a plane, maybe with hopes of becoming a pilot.

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This painting, created by Aaron Douglas, shows that the blues were created from slavery.

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This painting, created by Aaron Douglas, shows African men building structures in Egypt.

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This painting, created by Romare Bearden, shows an African American woman sleeping on a quilt.

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This painting, created by Jacob Lawrence, shows an African American wedding.

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This painting ,created by Jacob Lawrence, shows four African American families going on a trip.

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This painting ,created by Jacob Lawrence, shows an  African American family leaving a building.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, shows a women and two men listening to piano music.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, shows a man, perhaps a famous blues or jazz artist, entertaining two men and a women.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, shows three men entertaining themselves with a guitar.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, shows a banjo player is alone in the painting. His lyrics describe slavery which was the roots of the blues

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, shows the couple in the center is swinging and two musicians play in the foreground, one on thesaxophone and another behind him on trumpet.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, depicts two men playing checkers and two others watching. All the men are wearing formal attire.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, depicts an African American neighborhood out and enjoying the summer night.

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This painting , created by Palmer C. Hayden, depicts the welcoming of a boy by his mother, father, and brother.

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“Fétiche et Fleurs” (Fetish and Flowers)

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“Fétiche et Fleurs” (Fetish and Flowers)

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This painting, created by Palmer c. Hayden shows a Fang reliquary head from Gabon placed on top of Kuba raffia cloth from Central Africa

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This painting, created by Palmer C. Hayden shows an African woman dancing in her village.

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This piece was also created by Jacob Lawrence and depicts a male and female asleep, and possibly dreaming of dancing.

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This piece was created by Jacob Lawrence and depicts a female laborer.

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This piece was created by Lois Mailou Jones and was part of her collection "The life and art of Mailou Jones."

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By: Claude Mckay
I hear the halting footsteps of a lass

In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall

Its veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass

To bend and barter at desire's call.

Ah, little dark girls who in slippered feet

Go prowling through the night from street to street!

Through the long night until the silver break

Of day the little gray feet know no rest;

Through the lone night until the last snow-flake

Has dropped from heaven upon the earth's white breast,

The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet

Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street.

Ah, stern harsh world, that in the wretched way

Of poverty, dishonor and disgrace,

Has pushed the timid little feet of clay,

The sacred brown feet of my fallen race!

Ah, heart of me, the weary, weary feet

In Harlem wandering from street to street.