https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4 Please write each theme under the appropriate heading. Please give one quote from the poem to support your theme. en-us 2022-02-28 21:34:24 UTC 2022-03-04 18:24:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078362026 It talks about a lack of racism because everyone does not have their place because they are African American.]]> 2022-03-04 17:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078362026 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078362557 "Harlem was a promise
Of a better life, Of a place where a man didn't
Have to know his place
Simply because he was
Black."]]> 2022-03-04 17:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078362557 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078363525 "Sunday night gospel" They were very religious people so they went to church and also had religious music as well. ]]> 2022-03-04 17:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078363525 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078364677 "Announcing Hallelujah, riffing past resolution, we hope, we pray"]]> 2022-03-04 17:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078364677 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078364767 "They took to the road in Waycross, Georgia
Skipped over the tracks in East St. Louis
Took the bus from Holly Springs
Hitched a ride from Gee's Bend
Took the long way through Memphis
The third deck down from Trinidad
A wrench of heart from Gorree Island
A wrench of heart from Gorree Island
To a place called Harlem" - steps that they've taken rhoughout their journey

"A journey on the A train that started on the banks of the Niger and has not ended" - their journey is still ongoing]]> 2022-03-04 17:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078364767 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078365182 "Boy, you ought to find the guy who told you you could play some checkers 'cause he done lied to you" 

Shows how racism was still an issue and simple things like playing checkers could be considered an offense.]]> 2022-03-04 17:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078365182 tzengjus23 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078365595 "Harlem was a promise, Of a better life, Of a place where a man didn't. Have to know his place. Simply because he was Black."

references Gorree Island]]> 2022-03-04 17:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078365595 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366043 "... There is a lilt, Tempo, cadence, a language of darkness know, darkness sharpened at Mintons, Darkness lightened at the Cotton Club..."]]> 2022-03-04 17:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366043 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366212 They brought a song first heard in villages in Africa. Also religion was a big part in their lives and in the community. As well as just the community spending time together such as the bqq's]]> 2022-03-04 17:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366212 vitorinomar23 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366570 " We hope, we pray]]> 2022-03-04 17:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078366570 tsitukkar23 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078411551 Harlem was a promise 
Of a better life, Of a place where a man didn't 
Have to know his place 
Simply because he was 
Black. ]]> 2022-03-04 18:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078411551 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078411918 the author talks about how AA are not as equal as Whites. also says that blacks should be treated well and have a place to live ......they cant mistreated because of their skin color.]]> 2022-03-04 18:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078411918 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078414589 There is talk of a journey into Harlem from other places]]> 2022-03-04 18:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078414589 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078414840 Harlem is a place full of different groups, with multiple religions
"Shango and Jesus" - different religions
"Asante and Mende" - different ethnic people groups

The groups all connect with eachother using music, such as blues & jazz, celebrating their similarities and differences ]]> 2022-03-04 18:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078414840 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078415140 "... the artist looking into a mirror, painting a portrait of his own heart. Place, Sound, Celebration, Memories of feelings".

]]> 2022-03-04 18:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078415140 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078417964 "Calls and songs and shouts, heavy-hearted tambourine rhythms". They had their own music and culture that they brought to Harlem. ]]> 2022-03-04 18:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078417964 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078418022 "Harlem was a promise/Of a better life, Of a place where a man didn't/Have to know his place"]]> 2022-03-04 18:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078418022 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078418858 "reflecting the face of God in storefront temples"
"abyssinian baptist"
"jesus"
"sunday night gospel"
"precious lord"]]> 2022-03-04 18:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078418858 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078420837 "That started at the Niger and has not ended" Not just the journey in the US but the Journey of different Generations to and from different parts of the world

]]> 2022-03-04 18:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078420837 https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078426004 "Sunday night gospel" "Jesus"
keeping faith throughout their community]]> 2022-03-04 18:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lamattinad/5oas2xez3tml0pn4/wish/2078426004