The Harlem Renaissance
Art Work : Jacob Lawrence
Migration series
This interesting picture is showing black african american migrating to the upper north part of the country.
Why is their artwork important?
Jacob artwork was important because he referred to his style as dynamic cubism
Marcus Garvey
He found the universal Negro Improvement Association
philosophy - directed the largest mass- based movement among African Americans in the history of the United States.
Relationship with W.E.B Dubois - approached the civil rights movement of their time with almost perfectly opposing strategies.
W.E.B DuBois
Role in the Harlem Renaissance - was a composer of Harlem Classic Renaissance.
Major organization he helped to find - NAACP
Magazine he was the editor for: Miles stones Crisis magazine
out look on African American during this time- in the process of ending racial segregation
Writers
~ James Weldon Johnson
~Lift every voice
~ a song him and his brother made together
Musicians
~ Bessie Smith
~downhearted blues
~ young woman blues
~ she is singing the blues about young ladies lifes