Africain Spirituals
It seems almost impossible to state when the first spirituals were created, most speculate that these songs flourished near the end of the 18th century and during the last few decades leading up to the end of legalized slavery in the 1860s. During this long period of active music making, Americans....

Baldwin
American writer, noted for his novels on sexual and personal identity, and sharp essays on civil-rights struggle in the United States. Baldwin also wrote three plays, a children's storybook, and a book of short stories. He gained fame with his first novel, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (1....

Black Boy, by Richard Wright
Analyzing the work of a Black Boy During the 19th century the literary movement of choice was naturalism. Naturalism was a form of literature where writers were influenced by the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. These writers believed that heredity shaped a persons character. The Jim ....

blue print for equality - African Americans
Throughout history, African Americans have face discrimination un-justice treatment, brutal harassment, and un-equality of citizenship. Although that did happen, African Americans have prevail and over came these previous trails and tribulations that tried to keep them down. In the article Bluepri....

Harlem Renaissance
A century ago the African American world was shaken by a movement that redefined black artistic works, and opened the door for future Black writers, musicians, artists and actors. The New Negro Movement, later known as the Harlem Renaissance, redefined the Black artist and exposed the American Majo....

Harlem Renaissance ( Coleman Hawkins)
Coleman Hawkins Reign During the Harlem Renaissance A very big part of the 1920's was the Harlem Renaissance also known as the "New Negro Movement." It brought out the art, music, and literature side of most African American people. This took place in New York and during the 1920's and ended ar....

Harlem Reniassance Music
Harlem Renaissance Music By: Reuben Marshall The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of literature particularly music, art and poetry during the 1920s. Popular musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington were all associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Even th....

Imagery and Tone in the Great Gatsby
America in the 1920s was a profound decade for African-Americans. Finally, people of color were gaining equality within the nation. However, even though the minority as a whole was thriving, individual identity was hard to come by. Through literature many poets gained their own identity. Langston Hu....

Jackie Kennedey
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, most often referred to as Jackie, was born July 28, 1929 into New York society. She was from a socially prominent family being the eldest daughter of John Black Jack Vernon Bouvier III, a playboy stockbroker,....

Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence has painted figurative and narrative pictures of the black community and black history for more than 60 years in a consistent modernist style, using expressive, strong design and flat areas of color. Jacob Lawrence was a great artist. During Harlem Renaissance, he helped establish A....

James Baldwins Life as Reflected in His Work Sonnys Blues
Often an author's life is reflected in his work. James Balwin was born in 1924 in Harlem. In 1938 he was a preacher in the Bronx. By 1944, he moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan where he met many writer and artist. James Baldwin is famous for producing plays novel and essays. Jennifer Hicks anal....

Josephine Baker
JOSEPHINE BAKER--- By Katrina Tuten Josephine Baker was born in June 3, 1906. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her full name was Freda Josephine McDonald, she was of mixed Apalachee Native American and African American descent. In 1937 she became a French citizen.. S....

Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Born: April 4, 1928 St. Louis, Missouri Occupation: Novelist/Poet Nationality: United States Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Ri....

Poetry on the Internet
Introduction The interest in poetry is at an all-time high, and much of that interest has to do with the accessibility of poetic materials on the Internet, a vehicle that offers both a wide latitude of choice to browsers and researchers and a curious mixture of attention and anonymity to those who ....

Social Change In the 1920's
Social Change in the 1920's After the horrors of the Great War, President Harding believed that our Nation needed a return to normalcy. However, the 1920's turned out to be a decade that was anything but normal. The men who had risked their lives for an older generations ideas and mist....

Sonnys Blues by James Baldwin
Sonnys Blues Analysis James Baldwin shows the theme of suffering, in Sonnys Blues through point of view, characterization, setting, and plot. Sonnys Blues is written in first-person point of view because the narrator is the only person, besides his mother, to know the truth about....

The African Spirit in The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Over the history of literature, there have been many writers that were naturally gifted; intriguing literature just flowed from their pen with little effort needed. Langston Hughes, one of the most influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance, did just that one day riding on a train bound for ....

The American Dream
The American Dream; a Reality Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its cree....

The American Dream in African American Literature
The American Dream in Black Literature The American Dream has been a popular subject when it comes to art, whether it is in the form of cinema, music, literature, ect. What the dream stands for is debatable, but it is the consensus that the American Dream is based on success. This image of ....

The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance By Spanikca Turner History Section R56 Chant another song of Harlem; Not about the wrong of Harlem But the worthy throng of Harlem Proud that they belong in Harlem They, the over-blamed in Harlem Need not be ashamed in Harlem All is not ill-famed in Harle....

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