https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k Visual Essay en-us 2016-07-09 02:54:49 UTC 2023-03-25 20:58:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116133957 Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? 
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again! 

Langston Hughes

]]> 2016-07-09 03:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116133957 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116133991 2016-07-09 03:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116133991 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134005 2016-07-09 03:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134005 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134019 Star tap dancer duo.]]> 2016-07-09 03:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134019 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134030 one of the most famous jazz artists of the harlem renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 03:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134030 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134036 2016-07-09 03:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134036 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134040 black men waiting to go see louis armstrong outside a theatre.]]> 2016-07-09 03:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134040 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134185 2016-07-09 03:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134185 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134187 2016-07-09 03:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134187 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134192 A picture of the front of the famous "cotton club"]]> 2016-07-09 03:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134192 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134251 2016-07-09 03:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134251 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134261 A different type of music that made a big emergence during the Harlem renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 03:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134261 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134273 2016-07-09 03:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134273 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134276 Another photo of the highly influential artist.]]> 2016-07-09 03:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134276 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134445 2016-07-09 03:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134445 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134452 A list of some of the most important figures and places of the Harlem Renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 03:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134452 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134521 2016-07-09 03:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134521 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134526 A famous theatre, with a performance by Duke Ellington.]]> 2016-07-09 03:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134526 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134541 2016-07-09 03:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134541 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134544 A poster advertising Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, and his Great Orchestra.]]> 2016-07-09 03:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134544 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134592 2016-07-09 04:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134592 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134599 A popular Harlem Nightclub often nicknamed "The Corner."]]> 2016-07-09 04:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134599 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134698 2016-07-09 04:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134698 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134757 A famous novelist of the Harlem Renaissance]]> 2016-07-09 04:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134757 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134760 2016-07-09 04:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134760 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134804 "The World's Finest Ballroom" helped bring the Harlem Renaissance to life.]]> 2016-07-09 04:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134804 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134865 2016-07-09 04:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134865 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134868 Perhaps the most famous female musicians of the Harlem Renaissance. Holiday was a social phenom and performed in jazz clubs when she was only a teen.]]> 2016-07-09 04:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134868 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134880 2016-07-09 04:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134880 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134882 A famous artist from the Harlem Renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 04:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134882 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134895 2016-07-09 04:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134895 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134901 One of Aaron Douglass's paintings.]]> 2016-07-09 04:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134901 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134913 2016-07-09 04:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134913 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134914 2016-07-09 04:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134914 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134915 2016-07-09 04:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134915 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134917 2016-07-09 04:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134917 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134922 A famous artist from the Harlem Renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 04:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134922 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134926 One of Jacob Lawrence's more famous works.]]> 2016-07-09 04:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134926 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134932 A famous female artist from the Harlem Renaissance.]]> 2016-07-09 04:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134932 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134954 From the "Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones]]> 2016-07-09 04:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116134954 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136007 2016-07-09 06:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136007 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136016 A photo of the 58 greatest Jazz musicians, taken in 1958]]> 2016-07-09 06:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136016 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136036 2016-07-09 06:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136036 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136037 A famous Blues musician.]]> 2016-07-09 06:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136037 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136045 2016-07-09 06:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136045 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136048 As African Americans began to feel better about their race, Whites tried to knock them down, and started riots.]]> 2016-07-09 06:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136048 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136055 2016-07-09 06:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136055 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136056 African Americans were constantly victims of violence in their struggle for pride.]]> 2016-07-09 06:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136056 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136083 2016-07-09 06:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136083 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136088 The Harlem Renaissance heavily influenced the rise of black culture]]> 2016-07-09 06:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136088 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136104 2016-07-09 06:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136104 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136106 Famous civil rights activist.]]> 2016-07-09 06:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136106 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136119 2016-07-09 06:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136119 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136120 "The First 100 Years"
Motley's final painting.]]> 2016-07-09 06:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136120 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136127 2016-07-09 06:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136127 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136128 Famous Jazz musician.]]> 2016-07-09 06:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136128 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136134 2016-07-09 06:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136134 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136137 Most night clubs only catered to whites, but requested the performances by black artists.]]> 2016-07-09 06:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136137 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136149 2016-07-09 06:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136149 nicholas_conor11 https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136151 The essence of what the Harlem Renaissance really was.]]> 2016-07-09 06:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholas_conor11/1xm4a8k0az7k/wish/116136151