Harlem Renaissance by Gina Zolot

Harlem Renaissance by Gina Zolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc en-us 2017-11-15 18:17:54 UTC 2025-11-11 02:36:22 UTC hello@padlet.com America by Claude McKay ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207361850 Claude McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, on September 15, 1889. McKay moved to Harlem, New York, after publishing his first books of poetry, and established himself as a literary voice for social justice during the Harlem Renaissance. He is known for his novels, essays and poems, including "If We Must Die" and "Harlem Shadows." He died on May 22, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois.]]> 2017-11-15 18:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207361850 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368099 2017-11-15 18:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368099 Cotton Club ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368410 The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935^[1] and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America's Prohibition Era. The club was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era.]]> 2017-11-15 18:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368410 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368821 2017-11-15 18:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207368821 Web DuBois ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207372776 William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.]]> 2017-11-15 18:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207372776 Dreams ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207384093 Jacob Lawrence was the first mainstream African American artist. His success began at the age of 24, and lasted until he died, in 2000. Lawrence is best known for his "Migration" series or paintings, where he shows the migration of blacks from Africa, to the United States]]> 2017-11-15 19:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207384093 Billie Holiday(Lady Day) (1915-1959) ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207385340 Billie Holiday rose as a social phenomenon. Born Eleanora Fagan grew up in Baltimore. 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 pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo]]> 2017-11-15 19:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207385340 Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207387406 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.Â ]]> 2017-11-15 19:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207387406 Study for God's Trombones ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207389657 Aaron Douglas (1898-1979) was the Harlem Renaissance artist whose work best exemplified the 'New Negro' philosophy. He painted murals for public buildings and produced illustrations and cover designs for many black publications including The Crisis and Opportunity. In 1940 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he founded the Art Department at Fisk University and tought for twenty nine years.]]> 2017-11-15 19:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207389657 Josephine Baker ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207391486 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. ]]> 2017-11-15 19:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207391486 Billy "Bo jangles" Robinson ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207391771 The famous tap-dancer Bill "Bo jangles" Robinson became famous with his role in Blackbirds of 1928, and all- black musical on Broadway. He was known for his elegant style and grace with white and black audiences]]> 2017-11-15 19:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207391771 The Crisis Magazine ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207395269 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 "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.]]> 2017-11-15 19:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207395269 Lift Every Voice and Sing ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207401414 Often referred to as the "Black American National Anthem” is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1905.]]> 2017-11-15 19:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207401414 The Negro Speaks of Rivers ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207406128 The central meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" revolves around the importance of roots and the way they provide meaning in life.]]> 2017-11-15 19:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207406128 "Strange Fruit" by Billy Holiday ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207409067 In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root." He set the poem to music and a few years later convinced Billy holiday to record it in a legendary heartbreaking performance.]]> 2017-11-15 19:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207409067 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207411565 2017-11-15 19:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207411565 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207476745 I, Too is a poem written by Langston Hughes that demonstrates a yearning for equality through perseverance while disproving the idea that patriotism is limited by race. It was first published in 1926, and published in "The First Collection of Poems of Langston Hughes." This poem, along with other works by Hughes, helped define the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the early 1920s and 30s of newfound cultural identity for blacks in America who had discovered the power of literature, art, music, and poetry as a means of personal and collective expression in the scope of civil rights]]> 2017-11-15 23:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207476745 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477100 Lines 1 through 4 establish that the speaker and his allies are under attack. The speaker urges his allies not to give up without a fight. The next four lines draw on the emotions of the allies to die honorably. Lines 9 through 12 contain the speaker's rallying cry to his allies. He calls on them to fight back even though they have no chance of winning. The last two lines can be summed up like so: "Even though we're going to die, we are going to fight like men."]]> 2017-11-15 23:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477100 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477523 2017-11-15 23:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477523 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477587 2017-11-15 23:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207477587 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207478011 The poem Harlem by Langston Hughes reflects the post World War II mood of many African Americans. The Great Depression was over, the war was over, but for African Americans the dream, whatever particular form it took, was still being deferred. Whether ones dream is as mundane as hitting the numbers or as noble as hoping to see ones children reared properly, Langston Hughes takes them all seriously; he takes the deferral of each dream to heart. ]]> 2017-11-15 23:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207478011 Backwater Blues ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207480087 has long been associated in the popular mind and even by some writers with the great flood of the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries that occurred that year. ]]> 2017-11-16 00:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207480087 Bessie Smith ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207480418 Bessie Smith was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on other jazz singers.]]> 2017-11-16 00:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207480418 Take The "A" Train ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207481771 You must take the "A" train
To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem
If you miss the "A" train
You`ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem
Hurry, get on, now it`s coming
Listen to those rails a-thrumming
All aboard, get on the "A" train
Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem]]> 2017-11-16 00:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207481771 Ella Fitzgerald ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207482087 Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.]]> 2017-11-16 00:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207482087 Billy Strayhorn ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207482504 the 'A' Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. It is arguably the most famous of the many compositions to emerge from the collaboration of Ellington and Strayhorn.]]> 2017-11-16 00:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207482504 What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207483699

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

]]> 2017-11-16 00:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207483699 ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207486394 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.]]> 2017-11-16 00:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207486394 Drop Me Off In Harlem by Ella Fitzgerald ginazolot https://padlet.com/ginazolot/pr3348245muc/wish/207487198

Drop me off in Harlem,

Any place in Harlem,

There's someone waiting there

Who makes it seem like

Heaven up in Harlem.

I don't want your Dixie,

You can keep your Dixie,

There's no one down in Dixie who can take me

'Way from my hot Harlem.

Harlem has those southern skies,

They're in my baby's smile,

I idolize my baby's eyes and

Classy up-town style.

If Harlem moved to China,

I know of nothing finer,

Than to stow away on a plane, some day and have them

Drop me off in Harlem.