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Aaron Douglas, study for God's TrombonesPicture

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Aaron Douglas, study for God's TrombonesPicture

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Born Florence Winfrey was known as the "Queen of Happiness" she was an American cabaret singer,dancer, comedian and actress. She was featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair and she was photographed by famous photographers Bassano and Edward Steichen. Mills  was most famous for her renditions of " I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird" and "I'm Cravin for that Kind of Love."

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quit school when he was 12 years old and began to travel with the Cilliams and Walker Vaudeville Company. He was a part of the Canadian Jubilee singers and was one of the original members of the Pekin Stock Company in CHicago. In 1914 he appeared as the leading part in The Girl at The Fort with the ANita Bush Company. In 1926 he starred in the films version of Ten Nights in the Barroom. Sadly his career ended when he lost his voice and he died at the young age of 52.

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Paul was an American concert singer, recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement. Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of negro spirituals , he was also the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello in a production that consist of an all white cast. Robeson was  awarded a NAACP's Spingam Medal, the STalin Peace Prize and honorary memberships in over half a dozen trade unions. James Earl Jones, Sidney Potier and Harry Belafonte have cited Robeson's lead film roles as the firts to display dignity for black actors and African American heritage.

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This was established by W.E.B Du Bois, a major advocate for black rights during the Harlem Renaissance, and throughout history. It was established by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and would stand for (as quoted) " for the rights of men, irrespective of color or race, for the highest ideals of American democracy, and for reasonable but earnest and persistent attempts to gain these rights and realize these ideals." The Crisis was read by many African Americans, and even some white sympathizers. Du Bois was able to talk about many things in the magazine, such as Jim Crow Laws, lynching, and other inequalities that African Americans faced at the time. It was important to the Harlem Renaissance, because as it was circulated more, such issues were brought to the public, more so than they ever had been before.

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"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."

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A. Philip Randolph was born of April 15th, 1889.  He moved to Jacksonville, where he attended the Cookman Institute, with his brothers. After graduating, he worked different odd jobs, but dedicated much of his time to singing, acting and reading. He was convinced by W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk to fight for social equality, for his people. In 1911, he moved to New York City. Randolph joined the Socialist Party, and started to inform people on 135Street and Lenox avenue about socialism. He was asked in 1917 to edit a monthly magazine for the society, known as the Messenger. The magazine tried to find balance between the NAACP and the utopian populism of the UNIA. Randolph contributed to African American rights beyond editing a magazine in Harlem, NY. He became a widely known spokesman, and founded a League against military segregation in the army, which was later ended by President Truman.

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Marcus Garvey was a leading intellectual during the Harlem Renaissance. Garvey was self taught, and until he was 14 years old, attended school in Jamaica. While working in Costa Rica and Panama, Garvey became aware of the discrimination that his people, the African Americans, faced. He traveled to London in 1912, where he learned about Booker T Washington’s autobiography, which greatly influenced his movement. So in 1914, Garvey returned to Jamaica where he founded the United Negro Improvement Association, in order to create stronger connections between African Americans. Garvey became known as a rising “black Moses”, had gained roughly 2 million followers. In the Association’s Liberty Hall of Harlem, Garvey spoke about the “new negro”, and showed his pride for his race. At the time, Garvey also wrote a newspaper called the Negro World. This newspaper explained exploits of heroes of his race, as well as praising the African culture. Garvey’s teachings included the idea that African Americans would only be respected if they were strong, economically, and so as a result, he created chains of restaurants, hotels, laundries, a printing press, and much more for the black people in the United States.

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The Apollo Theater was constructed on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. It was originally Hurtig and Seamon's New Burlesque Theatre, and African American admissions were not permitted. It orginally featured burlesque, however, the citiy's mayor at the time, Fiorello La Guardia, did not like burlesque, and campaigned about it. So in January, 1934, African Americans began to perform, and the attention shifted from Burlesque, to the new celebration of Black culture in New York City.

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"….the Apollo probably exerted a greater influence upon popular culture than any other entertainment venue in the world. For blacks it was the most important cultural institution–not just the greatest black theatre, but a special place to come of age emotionally, professionally, socially, and politically. Ted Fox, “Showtime at the Apollo”

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The famous tap-dancer Bill"Bonjangles" Robinson became famous with his role in Blackbirds of 1928, and all- black musical on Boradway. He was known for his elegant style and grace with white and black audiences Blacks and whites developed different opinions of him. To whites he was nicknamed "bonjangles" (happy go luck) but to blacks he was referred to as a "squabbler". Audiences enjoyed his style which included a frenetic manner of the jitterbug During the 1930's he preformed at the famous Cotton Club. Today he is most famous for dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930's.

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Josephine baker was a dancer, singer actress and comedian. She was the first African American performer to break free of racial offense. She is known to audiences in both Europe and the United States, she is known as “Black Venus”, “Black Pearl” and Creole Goddess because of her audiences and beauty.

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Dancers

The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South California. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called “the Charleston” by composer/pianist James P. Johnson.

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One of the most famous musicians of the Harlem Renaissance was Louis Armstrong. Having come from a poor family in New Orleans, Armstrong began to perform with bands in small clubs, and play at funerals and parades around town in New Orleans. He wasn't a small band man for long, though. Louis Armstrong was invited in 1922 to move to Chicago, to play the second cornet in a Creole Jazz Band. However, just two years later, Armstrong moved to New York City, and began playing his music with the FLetcher Henderson Orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom. In 1929, he made his first appearance on the Broadway stage. In his recording of Ain't Misbehavin, he used a pop song, however, interpreted it through jazz. This helped to set the stage for the acceptance of jazz music in the future. In 1942, he married a dancer from the Cotton Club, where his band had performed many times. All throughout the 1950's and 60's, Armstrong appeared in films and made many international tours. Louis Armstrong is one of the most appreciated jazz artists of the Harlem Renaissance, and of all times. People learned to appreciate both jazz, and African American music even more, because of this man. Armstrong played music up until the day he died at 70 years old, on July 6, 1971.

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Born William Henry Webb, know as Chick Webb was and American jazz ad swing music drummer. Born in Baltimore, he suffered from tuberculosis of the spine. He worked as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums and he first played professionally at age 11. At the age of 17 he move to New York City and began leading his own band in Harlem. His band became the house band at the Savoy Ballroom. He became one of the best-regarded band leader and drummers of the new “Swing” style. Drumming legend Buddy Rich cited Webb’s technique and performances as heavily influential on his own drumming and referred to Webb as “the daddy of them all.” At the Savory in “Battle of the Bands” Chicks often won and was deemed “King of Swing.”

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During the 1950’s Billie Holiday rose as a social phenomenon.  Born Eleanora Fagan grew up in Baltimore. As a teenager she began singing in jazz clubs. At the age of 18 Billie was spotted by John Hammond and received her first record as part of a studio group led by Benny Goodman. She made big hits including “What a Little Moonlight can do” and “Miss Brown to You.” Holiday began working with Lester Young in 1936, who gave her the nick name “Lady Day”. She was one of the first black women to work with a white orchestra. A musical legend Billie Holiday died at the age of 44. She pionerrerd a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She cowrote  a few songs that became jazz standards. "God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," "Fine and Mellow," and "lady Sings the Blues."

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Billie Holiday(Lady Day) (1915-1959)

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The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s and had Harlem in New York City as its symbolic capital. It was a time of great creativity in musical, theatrical, and visual arts but was perhaps most associated with literature; it is considered the most influential period in African American literary history.

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The style of the Harlem Renaissance poets captures the art of storytelling. The way a poem is read makes a difference in whether or not the story evokes the intended emotion. Former poet laureate Billy Collins offers tips for reading poetry out loud: He suggests it be read slowly in a normal, relaxed voice. The reader should not pause at the end of each line, but follow the punctuation in the poem. Unfamiliar words should be looked up in a dictionary in order for a person to fully understand the meaning of the poem.

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Johnson first wrote this as a poem, and it was later set to music by his brother.  The rhythm and rhyme-scheme are complex, but no more so than many other classic poems in English.

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McKay is writing here about lynchings, in particular
the riots in Harlem in 1919. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., read this poem into the Congressional record during World
War II for its inspirational theme.

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The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world, with members in every major steel-producing country.

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If We Must Die

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 accursèd lot.
If we must die, O 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!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
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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Trying to convey to hold onto your dreams because during this time dreams weren't allowed to be chased after in this time period

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Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.