Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance

• 1920-1930
• The Flowering of African American Creativity

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Why? How?

• The Great Migration
• Jim Crow Laws
• WEB Dubois and the NAACP
• Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa
• movement

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Literature

• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Nella Larson
• James Weldon Johnson

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Art

• Aaron Douglas
• Jacob Lawrence
• Archibald Motley

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Music

• The Blues-Jazz
• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• Josephine Baker
• Bessie Smith
• Ethel Waters

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Archibald J. Motley, Nightlife,
Palmer Hayden, Jeunesse,
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Aaron Douglas, Into Bondage
Aaron Douglas, Study for Aspects of Negro Life
The Negro in an African Setting,
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Seine
  Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937),
The Banjo Lesson
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Les Fetiches by Lois Mailou Jones
The Migration by Jacob Lawrence
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End of the Day by Ellis Wilson
Baptizing Day by Palmer Hayden
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Ellis Wilson Art
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Field Workers
Funeral Procession
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Two Mothers
Flower Vendor
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Archibald J. Motley Jr. Art
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Tongues (Holy Rollers)
Blues
Blues
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Saturday Night Scene
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Hot Rhythm
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Jacob Lawrence
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Poetry- Langston Hughes

• Bad Morning
• Here I sit
• With my shoes mismated.
• Lawdy-mercy!
• Is frustrated

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Hope

• Sometimes when Im lonely,
• Dont know why,
• Keep thinkin I wont be lonely
• By and by.

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Luck

• Sometimes a crumb falls
• From the tables of joy,
• Sometimes a bone
• Is flung.
• To some people
• Love is given,
• To others
• Only heaven.

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American Heartbreak

• I am the American heartbreak
• Rock on which Freedom
• Stumps its toe-
• The great mistake
• That Jamestown
• Made long ago.

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Still Here

• Ive been scarred and battered.
• My hopes the wind done scattered.
• Snow has friz me, sun has baked me.
• Looks like between em
• They done tried to make me
• Stop laughin, stop lovin, stop livin-
• But I dont care!
• Im still here!

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Final curve

• When you turn the corner
• And you run into yourself
• Then you know that you have turned
• All the corners that are left

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Wake

• Tell all my mourners
• To mourn in red-
• Cause there aint no sense
• In my beindead

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Dream Deferred

• What happens to a dream deferred?
• Does it dry up
• like a raisin in the sun?
• Or fester like a sore
• and then run?
• Does it stink like rotten meat?
• Or crust and sugar over
• like a syrupy sweet?
• Maybe it just sags like a heavy load
• Or does it just explode?

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Dream Dust

• Gather out of star-dust
• Earth-dust
• Cloud-dust,
• Storm-dust,
• And splinters of hail,
• One handful of dream-dust
• Not for sale