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Ella Fitzgerald

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Richmond Barthé

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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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Bill Bojangles Robinson - Living In a Great Big Way

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Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

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Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist who depicted the African-American experience. Some of her better known books are "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Sweat."

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E. Simms Campbell

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James Van Der Zee

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Beauford Delaney

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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson

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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson

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Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast’ning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land.

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W.E.B. Du Bois was an activist, writer, sociologist, and historian. He was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He was also instrumental in the formation of the NAACP.

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Palmer Hayden

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Hubert Thomas Delany was a civil rights activist and a lawyer who served on the board for the NAACP.

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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

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Aaron Douglas

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"I Have A Rendezvous With Life" by Countee Cullen

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"I Have A Rendezvous With Life" by Countee Cullen

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I have a rendezvous with Life,
In days I hope will come,
Ere youth has sped, and strength of mind,
Ere voices sweet grow dumb.
I have a rendezvous with Life,
When Spring's first heralds hum.
Sure some would cry it's better far
To crown their days with sleep
Than face the road, the wind and rain,
To heed the calling deep.
Though wet nor blow nor space I fear,
Yet fear I deeply, too,
Lest Death should meet and claim me ere
I keep Life's rendezvous.

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Chick Webb

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Chick Webb - Midnite In A Madhouse [Dec. 17, 1937]

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Lois Mailou Jones

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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

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Bessie Smith

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Bessie Smith (Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, 1929) Jazz Legend

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Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter and singer who became one of the most well known and influential jazz artists of all time.

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Archibald John Motley, Jr.

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Allan Rohan Crite

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If we must die—let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die—oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

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Langston Hughes was a successful poet, author, and social activist.

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Cab Calloway

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Cab Calloway And The Missourians JSP Records 328 10/14/30 Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 -- November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.

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William H. Johnson

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Augusta Savage

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Billie Holiday was a jazz singer known for popular hits such as "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "God Bless the Child."