Harlem Renaissance by Kavya Kannan

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

welchn3 — 2018-10-30 17:41:05 UTC

Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in poetry. In 1924 Bennett taught design, watercolor, and crafts at Howard University.

Charles Alston

kannank — 2018-10-30 17:41:47 UTC

- an African-American painter, sculptor, teacher, and illustrator.
- lived and worked in the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
- born in Charlotte, NC
- died in New York

If We Must Die by Claude Mckay

dealw — 2018-10-30 17:41:49 UTC

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!

Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset

seckingtonl — 2018-10-30 17:42:31 UTC

If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing,
     Then better far the hateful fret, the sting.
Better the wound forever seeking balm
     Than this gray calm!

Is this pain’s surcease? Better far the ache,
     The long-drawn dreary day, the night’s white wake,
Better the choking sigh, the sobbing breath
     Than passion’s death!

William Grant Still

johnsonb23 — 2018-10-30 17:42:47 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHmyksd36Q&list=PLYiBFD1OOLZwjpVYDdx0M0exGEE0NtaZI&index=1

- First African American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra
-Born May 11, 1895- died December 3, 1978
- Best known for his Afro-American Symphony (1931)
- Born in Mississippi

Claude Mckay

dealw — 2018-10-30 17:43:05 UTC

-born in Jamaica
-Poet and writer in Harlem Renaissance
-wrote about black ways of living
-saw the bigger picture in all situations
-wrote social and political concerns

Jessie Fauset

seckingtonl — 2018-10-30 17:44:36 UTC

was an African-American write who wrote articles for The Crisis. She eventually left to work on her own work. She wrote poems, essays, novels and worked as an editor. Her most influential writings include Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral, a novel about a mixed-race girl living in the Harlem Renaissance and her coming of age story, and There is Confusion, a novel that was in direct response to a white man writing about mixed-race life in America, Fauset felt that she was more qualified to write it so she wrote a response to correct stereotypes.