https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37 en-us 2016-10-27 13:43:41 UTC 2023-10-14 03:29:25 UTC hello@padlet.com gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133628366 James Weldon Johnson was the leading writer in the Harlem Group. He is also known best for his role as executive director of the NAACP. Some poems by James Weldon Johnson are The Creation, Go Down Death, and Lift Every Voice and Sing.]]> 2016-10-27 14:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133628366 connor_wallace https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133881502 Spanning the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. Its essence was summed up by critic and teacher Alain Locke in 1926 when he declared that through art, “Negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self determination.” Harlem became the center of a “spiritual coming of age” in which Locke’s “New Negro” transformed “social disillusionment to race pride.” Chiefly literary, the Renaissance included the visual arts but excluded jazz, despite its parallel emergence as a black art form.]]> 2016-10-28 13:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133881502 gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883024 Langston Hughes was an African Poet who wrote poems about the joys and difficulties of being human, American, and being black. Langston Hughes lived from 1902 to 1967. Some Langston Hughes poems are Dream Variations, Theme for English B, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Night Funeral In Harlem, and Madam's Past History. ]]> 2016-10-28 13:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883024 connor_wallace https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883236  Life was a cultural movement in the United States that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. While the zenith of the movement occurred between 1924 and 1929, its ideas have lived on much longer.]]> 2016-10-28 13:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883236 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883250 Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow laws led many African-Americans to hope for a better life up in the north. Hate groups started to scare African-American  families in the deep South. Most blacks toiled as sharecroppers trapped in an endless cycle of debt. In the 1890s, a boll weevil blight damaged the cotton crop throughout the region, making things even worse. All these factors served to push African Americans to seek better lives. The increase northern economy forged the pull. Industrial jobs were numerous, and factory owner for sources of cheap labor.]]> 2016-10-28 13:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883250 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883380 No aspect of the Harlem Renaissance shaped America and the entire world as much as jazz. Jazz flouted many musical conventions with its syncopated rhythms and improvised instrumental solos. Thousands of people went night after night to see the same performers. Improvisation meant that no two performances would ever be the same. Harlem's Cotton Club boasted the talents of Duke Ellington. Singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong drew huge audiences as white Americans as well as African Americans caught jazz fever.]]> 2016-10-28 13:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133883380 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133891892 Men wore well-tailored pinstriped suits, tuxedos, silk shirts and handkerchiefs, raccoon fur coats, fedora hats, suspenders, bow ties, black patent leather shoes and spats. The fashion and clothing for men also included short suit jackets, cuffed trousers, waistcoats and wide-leg "Oxford Bags". Sports and leisure influenced other clothing like jumpers, jodhpurs  and knickerbockers. The famous 'Zoot Suit' was also a strong fashion statement for men during the Harlem Renaissance. During the 1920's, men abandoned formal clothes and began to wear sports clothing for the first time.]]> 2016-10-28 13:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/133891892 connor_wallace https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134761171 The Harlem Renaissance was a period in American literature from the end of World War I to the 1930's. It included writers like Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Jean Toomer, and Langston Hughes, who wrote about the alienation and marginalization in American society.]]> 2016-11-02 13:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134761171 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134761763 In 1920, Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, opened the Club Deluxe on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in the center of Harlem. Owney Madden, a white gangster, took over operations in 1923 and renamed the venue the Cotton Club. Madden expanded the former 400-seat nightclub to 700 seats, and updated the decorations to reflect a stylish 'plantation environment' to cater to the upper-class white patrons who came to enjoy the performances of the best jazz musicians of the day. It quickly became the most popular cabaret in Harlem.]]> 2016-11-02 13:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134761763 gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134770622 Zora Neale Hurston was a famous novel writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her most well known novel is, "Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, and died in 1960. ]]> 2016-11-02 13:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134770622 connor_wallace https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134775239 During the early 20th century, African-American poets, musicians, actors, artists and intellectuals moved to Harlem in New York City and brought new ideas that shifted the culture forever. From approximately 1918 to the mid 1930s, talent began to overflow within this newfound culture of the black community in Harlem, as prominent figures—Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, to name a few—pushed art to its limit as a form of expression and representation.]]> 2016-11-02 14:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134775239 gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134785396 The Harlem Riot of 1935 happened in New York City on March 19th due to unemployment and police brutality. It all started when a 16 year old boy named Rivera stole from store but then was caught. Officers took Rivera down to the basement of the store and beat him. Spectator though Rivera had been killed because a hearse showed up but no harm had been done to Rivera and wasn't killed. When the police tried to get rid of the big crowd of people, a riot broke loose over what happened.]]> 2016-11-02 14:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134785396 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134785534 2016-11-02 14:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134785534 gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134890003 Alain Locke was an important supporter of the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 13, 1886, and died on June 9, 1954. Alain Locke attended Harvard University, Oxford University, and University of Berlin. He was a gifted Philosopher, and is regarded as the originator of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Alain contributed to both movements was his emphasis on values, diversity, and race relations.]]> 2016-11-02 18:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/134890003 gabriel_stinchcomb https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135003945 The famous novel Written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937. The story is about Janie Crawford and her search for true love after been through three marriages. She not only finds out what true love looks like, she discovers herself in the process. ]]> 2016-11-03 08:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135003945 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135020074 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra. He led his jazz orchestra from 1923 until his death in 1974. His career spanned over 50 years.]]> 2016-11-03 10:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135020074 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135020921 The radio created the conditions for national fads. Without such a method of live and immediate communication, fads could amount only to local crazes. Roaring Twenties fads ranged from the athletic to the ludicrous. One of the most popular trends of the decade was the dance marathon. The Charleston swept the nation's dance halls, and young Americans were eager to prove their agility. In a typical dance marathon, contestants would dance for forty-five minutes and rest for fifteen. The longest marathons lasted thirty-six hours. Beauty pageants came into vogue. The first Miss America Pageant was staged in Atlantic City in 1921. One of the most bizarre fads was Flagpole Sitting. The object was simple: be the person who could sit atop the local flagpole for the longest period of time. Fifteen-year-old Avon Foreman of Baltimore set the amateur standard — ten days, ten hours, ten minutes, and ten seconds.]]> 2016-11-03 10:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135020921 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135036095 The most prolific writer of the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes. Hughes cast off the influences of white poets and wrote with the rhythmic meter of blues and jazz. Claude Mckay urged African Americans to stand up for their rights in his powerful verses. Jean Toomer wrote plays and short stories, as well as poems. Zora Neale Hurston was noticed quickly with her moving novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Music met prose in the form of musical comedy. The 1921 production of Shuffle Along is credited with initiating the movement. Actor Paul Robeson electrified audiences with his memorable stage performances.]]> 2016-11-03 11:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135036095 DomMartinez https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135084502 The band started in New York City under name of the Washingtonians in 1923, they then briefly became known as Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra, then as Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra from 1927 to 1930.]]> 2016-11-03 14:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gabriel_stinchcomb/e9r4o0iepo37/wish/135084502