Harlem Renaissance poem by Mariah Casas

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f 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!

jacob Lawrence's called '''Bar and Grill''

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Aaron Douglas - Aspects of Negro Life, 1934

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Archibald Motley - Stagecoach and Mail, 1937

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Hale Woodruff's Amistad Murals, 1938

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Charles Alston's Harlem Hospital Murals, 1936-40

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the artist designed narrative, celebratory images of Harlem, African-American life, children's fairy tales, and stories for New York's Harlem Hospital representing the African Americans and there dreams of becoming free.

jacob Lawrence To Preserve Their Freedom, from Toussain L'Ouverture series, serigraph.

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Questions

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Why did the Harlem Renaissance use exotic, sensual images to celebrate African-American culture?
by taking control over representations of their own people, instead of accepting the depictions by white people.

How did the Harlem Renaissance affect the politics leading to the Civil Rights Movement?
would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

With so many economic and cultural hurdles, why was Harlem Renaissance art so optimistic in tone?
it promotes African American achievements. By this art, they cans how the world how artistic and talented African American are

What was it about Paris that allowed African-American artists to achieve recognition there?
Paris was a place where race didn't matter much, where felt respected as a person, and was free to develop as an artist.

Why did the Harlem Renaissance end?due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and resulting Great Depression, which hurt African American-owned businesses and made less financial support for them and there needs and for there art.
'Heidi Anderson, Harlem Renaissance on aBba front. us history, HIST 17B, canvas. 03/9/24

Archibald Motely, 1891-1981, Nightlife, 1943. Oil on canvas.

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Aaron Douglas, Song of the Towers, from the mural series Aspects of Negro Life, 1934 (not featured in the exhibition)

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Charles Henry Alston (1907-1977), Oh Freedom, oil on canvas, Smithsonian Institution

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Jacob Lawrence, from The Migration of the Negro, 1941, oil on panel, Philips Collectio

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Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint L'Oueverture from Toussaint L'Oueverture series, 1988-1997, serigraph

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