Thier eyes were watching god

In the story; their eyes were watching god, a woman named Janie, faces difficult challenges. With her being classified as a higher class of black but living in a lower class of black community, Janie’s life was ragged and confusing. She was never really appreciated for most of her accomplishments and was looked down upon by kids. As she grew older she became an easy target by cupid meaning; that she fell in love easy and got hurt even easier. Her first love was man named Tea cake, although more than a decade younger than her, his thirst for adventure sparked something in her and wanted her to live as he did. Jody was here second love and husband, his lust for money, power and better life is what attracted her to this man and lead to major events in her life. Logan, Janie’s first and worst love, being forced to the old and sexist man door matted Janie’s ambitious curiosity. The whole story consist of three Major elements, Love, Power and adventure, all these components is what made this book such a success and made it a idol to read and want to own in it’s day. The book sparked a thought in peoples mind that there was more to being a person of color than most had thought.

Harlem Life BY: Dustin Aytch

Harlem is a neighborhood that is located east of manhattan in New York City. Harlem is known to be a major residential place for African Americans. Harlem has brought many people together in cutural events, buisness, and life in general. Blacks had first start to arrive in Harlem in as early as the 1900's which later came with the times of the "Great Migration" . As the 1920's and 30's begin to approach the neighborhoood was known as the locus of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance consisted of many Black entertainers that came from all parts of the world to entertain. These certain events took place in Harlem about the time of the great depression and world war II.
During the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Harlem earned its reputation as the Example for Jazz and blues. They would consist of acts such as the Cotton Club and Apollo Theater made stars out of entertainers such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Michael Jackson, D'Angelo. The History of Harlem has been highly rising since the 1920's this was long before the neighborhood began to turn into a slum and some of the tradtions that were held in Harlem began to

Apollo Theater

The Apollo theater is one of the most famous music halls in the United States. It was one of the famous dance clubs that exculsive African Americans performers attended. The Apollo theater is a very fmaous historical land mark, especially for African Americans. In 1914, Apollo was found. It is located 125th street, the heart of Harlem. The Apollo was also known as "Where Stars are Born and Legends are Made", it was known as this because so many legends were there. It stared in 1935 when Bessie Smith made her apollo debut followed by Billie Holiday who graced the apollo stage wit her talent. Soon after that the thaeter was well know. Other legends who were known for being there are Stevie wonder, Michael Jackson, James Brown, etc.

Presetly the Aplollo Thearer is managed by the Apollo Theater Foundation, a non-profit oragnization created in 1992. It is marked as the most historical places. This theater is a strong force in the Harlem Community. Having 1.3 millioon vistors annually, The Apollo theater reamins the mai attraction.

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington was the best of his time in my opinion. He played his piano with such passion. People still to this day listen to his music. Duke was a composer and musician. He devoloped his musical skills from other greats befor him. I think bands that call them selves groups should do some history on real bands and musicians who started the different symphonies of music. Ive heard some Duke Ellingtons music and the way him and his orchestra played was very cool. They had everything togehter. The music was crisp. When him and his orchestra would go and play at harlem night clubs and other places they kept everyone dancing and happy. Duke would do piano solos that really brought the house down. Everyone would wait for him to play his piano solo because of the way he would just turn his solo into another songs. Thats the way composed most of his music. Most of the time he spent all day and night making music with his band. I think if Duke was still around to make music he and his band would be the one of the best bands to still be making jazz music.

Paul Robeson "what a great man"

Paul Robeson was a film and stage actor. In the 1920s, Robeson found fame as an actor and singing star of both stage and radio with his bass voice and commanding presence. Paul Robeson recorded over a hundred songs, making him first black actor to attempt to play roles which had dignity and stressed African pride. He was an activist for social justice. He became the voice of the nation when he performed American patriotic cantata. He was a civil rights forerunner. Robson was very outspoken about his extreme beliefs which were a conflict between Western Europe and the Jim Crow era. He was a concert star who made Negro spirituals popular. He was the first black actors of the 20th century. He was in Shakespeare play Othello. At the height of his fame, Paul Robeson decided to become a primarily political artist, speaking out against fascism and racism. Condemnation of Robeson and his beliefs came swiftly, from both the white establishment of the US, including the United States Congress, and many mainstream black organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Despite the persecutions and allegations that were placed on him through out his life, he continued to commit himself to world peace and anti-fascism.

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W.E.B DU BOIS

W.E.B DU Bois was an American civil rights activist, public Intellectual, Pan Africanist and a professor of a sociology etc.He was one of the founders of the NAACP being founded to gain the Human rights of people to vote and fight racism among different where most of the colored people were not given the same rights as others had in communities which also ended the Civil War,andthe thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution abolished slavery most of the ghts activist
Being a political activist on behalf of African Americans and Organizing the Negro exhibition which mostly focused on African Americans with the positive contributions to American Societies, W.E.B Du Bois mostly focused human rights where people had to gain the powers to Vote being provided from the government,ensuring the political,educational social,and economic equality of all citizens.
W.E.B. Du Bois fought racism that was in existence among different Communities in the US, being that most of the people were being dehumanized due to effects of slave trade that had took place in the US, being regarded as not only being human, but animals which achieved equality of rights and elimination of race prejudice among the citizens of the United States and removing all the barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.

In Coclusion,W.E.B Du together with the NAACP helped a lot in the development of the African Society where they mainly focused on African American rights and freedom.This also contributed to blacks being able to express their view to the government and being worked on in communities which educated persons as to their constitutional rights and taking all the law action by securing them and taking any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives consislents with the NAACP’s articles of incorporation and the constitution.

The Hottest Joint:The Cotton Club

By: Victoria Craft Per.3

In the 1920, heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson opened a club by the name of Club De Luxe in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. The Club was home to many great African American entertainers and it operated during the prohibition era which prohibited alcohol. The club was bought and taken over by a gangster named Owney Madden in 1923 and he changed the named to The Cotton Club.
The Club often portrayed the racist image of the 1920s with a “white only” policy which attracted more whites to the establishment. The girls of the club, the chorus girls, had to be light skinned, young and tan in order to work.
The Cotton Club was the center of the nightclub scene, where wealthy clientele met w/ celebrities and gangsters of Harlem. The club had closed temporarily in 1936 after the race riot in Harlem in 1935. The club closed for good in 1940 and reopened in 1978 w/ Cab Calloway and his band and many other great performers of that time.
Now the club’s new owner has a new policy which allows former excluded clientele to patron the club. Till this day The Cotton Club of New York City is the most famous nightclub in history presenting great entertainment during a time of prohibition and illegal activity.

Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the youngest son of five children his parents where Presbyterian minister Reverend William Drew Robeson and former schoolteacher Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson . He was the grandson of slaves and the son of a minister who escaped slavery and became one of Rutgers University's most famous and accomplished alumni. In 1923, Robeson earned a law degree from the Columbia Law School. Robeson took a job with a law firm after graduation, but left the firm and the practice of law when a white secretary refused to take dictation from him. Paul Robeson use his artistic talents in theater and music to promote African and African-American history and culture. Robeson became known as a citizen of the world, as comfortable with the people of Moscow and Nairobi as with the people of Harlem. In 1958, he embarked on a successful three-year tour of Europe and Australia. Unfortunately, illness ended his professional career in 1961. He lived the remainder of his years as a private citizen in his sister's home in Philadelphia. He died on January 23, 1976 at the age of 77.

SO KAOTIC!!!

It’s easy to hear Kaotic Drumline’s precision and clearly. What you can’t hear so easily are the movements hips dip, sticks whip, drummers come together in a cluster and then explode outward in all directions. An group of drummers who use intense and expressions as they play. Its basically put in the African American community. And us being African Americans, drums are part of our heritage. Period. That’s the way we communicated as slaves, and then that’s why bass and everything like that is important in music, because that’s what captures our ears. Sometimes you put out a little aggression. When you hear certain rhythms, you can put out some aggression, you can cry some, you can relax some. I think it’s more so towards our heritage. And when we feel it, it’s like a heartbeat. Music has become a major topic in my life, because its something that ican grab and take hold of, an still take it further than it was than when i started with it. An i know i can reach out to others to TRY an help them go down a good road by doing what im doing from leavin a inspiring moment every time i perfom. Doing big things.

Black Swan Records

Black Swan records was founded by Harry Pace as an outlet to record black musicians in an era when black music was largely ignored by the established recording companies. When Pace formed his Pace Phonograph Corporation, Inc., initially working out of his own home, he was hoping to both give black musicians a voice and to help document the music scene in New York that was flourishing during the Harlem Renaissance. The name of the label was purposely intended to be evoke the memory of singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, known popularly as the "Black Swan." Black Swan was known as the first black owned record label.He recruited Ethel Waters to the roster and the label started to make a impact on the recording industry. A bunch of tours was launched and the contract with Waters made her the highest paid black performer. By 1922 dealers were in place for as far as way as Southeast Asia and Black Swan was being promoted as a model for the most successful black owned enterprise. Pace and new business partner John Fletchers goals of the label were to record white musicians.November 1921, just as the Black Swan tours featuring Ethel Waters were beginning the first white musicians mixed with balck musicians. This was a great record company that helped alot of people and changed society greatly.

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. His parents names were Carrie M. Langston and James N. Hughes. Soon after his birth his parents seperated. Langston Hughes was mainly rasied by his mother and grandmother. He attended public schools in Kansas and Illinois. Graduating elementary school, Hughes was named class poet, although he had never written a poem. This made him interested in writing poetry. He graduated from high school in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1920. He won an athletic letter in track and held offices in the student council and the American Civic Association. In high school he was introduced to the works of poet Carl Sandburg. He began writing poetry and developing his unique of style. After high school, Hughes spent year in Mexico with his father. His faather tried to discourage him from wirting.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This book is about an African American lady name Janie Crawford. Janie is in her forties. It tells a story of her journey and it flashbacks to her friend Phoebe who is telling the story to the nosy neighbors on Janie's behalf. She has three major periods in her life when she is married to three different men. Nanny Janie's grandmother was a slave who became pregnant because of her master. Nanny gave birth to her daughter Leafy. Nanny tried to create a good life for Leafy but Leafy was having an affair with an school teacher. The school teacher raped her and she got pregnant with Janie. After Jaines birth Leafy began to drink and stay out late. Leafy runs away and leaves Janie with nanny. Nanny sees Janie kissing a boy from the neighborhood and has fears that Janie would become a mule to a man. She arranges for Janie to get married to an older man named Logan Killicks who needs a wife to help him with his home and farm. Janie has the idea that when you are married you are in love. Logan wasnt looking for love he just needed someone to help him out. Logan tried to get Janie to help him out with the farm she ran off with Joe Starks who took her to Eatonville. When they arrived to Eatonville it wasnt what they expected so he arranged to buy more land. He hired people to build a store for him to own and run. He selected himself as mayor of Eatonville. Janie realizes that all she is to Joe is a trophy. He wants Janie to act like the perfect wife. He wants her to run the store but he doesnt want her to participate in anything. After starks passed away she was independent.

David Townsend Wrestling Expert

Wrestling became my favorite sport my second year of high school. I would of never thought that wrestling would become my favorite sport because I thought that only white school or school with money participate, but i soon learned that its not about money or who has the most or best materail but it's the one who has the most heart and the most determination. My fisrt year of wrestling went pretty well. I made it to regionals but i lost fighting my way for third place agaisnt Gordan Tech high school. Well in that match personally i think that the referee cheated me out that match because i had my challenger pin for 20 seconds and the referee didn't call the match. And in my second year of wrestling I took third place in regionals and i made it to sectionals but i didn't make it down state. In the end I no where i need to be for next year and i'm willing to make changes to myself and do what ever i got to do to go down state with the perfect record. My goal for my last year of high school is to take first place down state and take my respect because no one is going to give it to me.

Harlem

A village independent of New York City until 1873, Harlem has been defined by a series of boom-and-bust cycles, with significant ethnic shifts then harlem have some of the best rapper that come from that place. Then at 1904 they start to get black people start to move in and then in 1920's and 30's they started to lose jobes it started to get harder and harder to find one. But no in the 20 century it all just change now its about drugs and money and turf that what it all bout. I was not born back in the day but i know it was not like it is now it was better to me and i dont even come from harlem.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston is one of the best know African novel's. not only is it consider African American literature but also women's literature. the book is about a woman named Janie Crawford who's in her early forties telling her life story. she start off by telling about her grandma who was a slave. and who gave birth to a baby girl named Leafy. and Leafy gave birth to Jaine. the Jaine tells how her grandma had to raise her. she talk about her different marriage's. and all the experience she had throw her life. she talk about how she try to find love and how she lost it.

Duke Ellington was a

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was born on August 4,1901. his nick name was Satchmo. he was an american jazz trumpeter and a singer. he was a foundational influence on jazz. he also was an influential singer, he was also greatly skilled at scat singing.louis armstrong had a difficult childhood. his father william armstrong was a factory worker, who abandoned his whole family. he was brought up by his mother mary albert armstrong and his maternal grandmother. he bought him his own cornet and he tought himself how to play the cornet. at the age of eleven he dropped out of school to join an informal group. he was sent to a reform school. there he studied music and played the cornet, and bugle in the school band. armstrong moved to chicago to join olivers band in august 1922 and made his first recordings as a member of the group in the spring of 1923. he was married to lillian harden, the pianist in the oliver band on february 5, 1924. she was the second of his four wives.

Andre Ward-Langston Hughes

I chose to write about Langston Hughes because i known him as a person who wrote poems and expressed his feelings about life. Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was born into a family of abolotionist. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Hughes, the brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes attended Central Highschool in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didnt think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son's tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry.
His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. Here is some words from his poem from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers":
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
By Langston Hughes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
1922

Their eyes were watching God; Is a story that focuses on the issues of the south. Explaning the troubles between black(light) and Black (dark). The racial differences, play a huge part in the story both love and action wise. Janie (the main character) faces issues on the subject of love.

James's music topic Louis Armstrong

My name is James Johnson and my selected topic is on Louis Armstrong. He was a american jazz trumpeter. He was born (August 4, 1901-July 6, 1971). He was a important roll in jazz. He changed performers to go solo. He was demonstrating as a improviser. He singed scat such as wordless vocalizing. His voice was very recognizable and so was his trumpet playing. Louis Armstrong was the important jazz musician in the 20th century. Louis spent most of his childhood in poverty in louisiana new orleans. He lived in a highly segregated city but had love for the music. Armstrong dropped out of school at the age of 11 years old, and joined a quartet of boys of which sang in the streets. On March 19, 1918, Louis started his early career in music. He adapted to other artist's styles such as Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong had died of a heart attack on July 6,1971. He always knew he had a beautiful life. In his early years, Armstrong was best known for his virtuosity with the cornet and trumpet. The older generation of New Orleans jazz musicians often referred to their improvisations as "variating the melody". Louis Armstrong was a great musician player.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God was about a girl looking to find love. She isn't like the other girls she looks black Janie is looking for love and she thought she found it with Tea Cake. Her grandma didn't approve of her wanting her to go with somebody who was 12 years older than her. Toward the end of the book, Tea Cake expects for her to actually play the woman role in a marriage and she didn't want to. Tea Cake was protecting Janie from the dog that was trying to get to them from the flood. Tea Cake got bit by the dog and started acting crazy. He came in the house one day and tried to fight her. She didn't want him to suffer so she just shot him. Everybody

Jospehine Baker(lenae cadd)

Jospehine Baker was born freda josephine mcdonald on june 3,1906 to the parents of carrie mcdonald and eddie carson. josephine grew up cleaning houses and cleaning for wealthy white people and babysitting. josephine never depended on a man for fianancial support so she never hesitated to leave a relationship. she was married and divorced several times and adopted several times. josephine toured the u.s with the jones family band and the dixie steppers in 1919. she enjoyed moderate sucess at the plantation club in new york. however, she travled to paris for a new venture. this was the turning point of her career she stayed performing in her feather skirt's and her performance was exotic and new. with all her movements she was a overnight sensation. josephine's popularity had her at a comfortable salary, she enjoyed animals she owned a leopard,chimpanzee,pig,snake,goat,parrot,parakeets,fish,three cats and seven dogs. josephine sever france during world war II, she performed for troops and other things. josephine traveled during the 50's and 60's to fight racism. later on she adopted kids from various backgrounds to prove that kids can grow as brothers and sisters. she contiued to preform and travel and later at 68 years of age she slipped into a coma and died on april 11 at 5:ooam. jospehine funeral had streets crowded and a military honor and she was the first african american to be buried with military honors jospehine memories will a always be in hundreds of peoples hearts.

Machito

Machito real name was Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo. He was born in havana, cuba december 3, 1909 and died april 15, 1984. Machito was a band leader of the afro cubans and played the maracas. He influence a lot of diffrent sounds into jazz. Machito brought an afro carribbean sound to jazz. This fantastic sound later beacame known as mambo and was a big hit in new york ballrooms in the early 40s and late 50s. Then later on machito was better known as the king of mambo. He became a great influence to Tito Puentes and many other drum players with his grate organized rythmn playing. Machito spent most of his time in new york and moved to miami florida and tour across the country. Machito was the founder of Arfo carribbean jazz known as mambo, He throughly was the king of mambo.

Emma Lou is from Boise, Idaho. She is the only dark-skinned member of her family and everyone in her family, even her mother, insults her, because of it. The only one that accepts her is her uncle. She was the only black girl in her high school and when she goes to college, she sees more black people and expects them to treat her better, but they don't, because of her dark skin. Later on, she goes to Harlem, expecting the black people there to treat her better. They don't. She becomes a teacher in Harlem and the other teachers tease her, because she wears so much make-up. She wears make-up to lighten her skin and thinks they are teasing her about her skin color instead. She gets played by the bisexual light-skinned Alva who only thinks of her as a sexual object and a mammy for her crippled baby, Alva Junior. In the end, Emma Lou realizes that she has become what she hates, which is someone who favors light-skinned people and is biased against dark-skinned people and that this is why all of her relationships fail. After realizing this, she leaves Alva and plans to go back to her old boyfriend John.

About Harlem By: Dustin Aytch

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” takes place after slavery was abolished. The main character is Janie Crawford; she is about forty years old and is telling the story of her life. She is the daughter of a black woman and a white man. Janie was the result of a rape. Her mother was having an affair with a school teacher soon after he raped her and she was pregnant with Janie. She lives with her grandmother after her mother left. The story has many dilemmas relating to the early 20th century. Janie tries to find her identity in a world of chaos. During the Harlem Renaissance African Americans were trying to create their own culture in the United States. Janie has to go through many dilemmas between both sides of her life (Skin Color). Many people were jealous of her or thought of her as inferior because of her skin color. Since she was not fully white and not fully black she did not know who she really was. The author also makes sure to show that everyone in life has flaws throughout the book. She writes about the community coming together and working to better themselves in any way possible.

The Blacker the Berry By Wallace Thurman

Emma Lou is from Boise, Idaho. She is the only dark-skinned member of her family and everyone in her family, even her mother, insults her, because of it. The only one that accepts her is her uncle. She was the only black girl in her high school and when she goes to college, she sees more black people and expects them to treat her better, but they don't, because of her dark skin. Later on, she goes to Harlem, expecting the black people there to treat her better. They don't. She becomes a teacher in Harlem and the other teachers tease her, because she wears so much make-up. She wears make-up to lighten her skin and thinks they are teasing her about her skin color instead. She gets played by the bisexual light-skinned Alva who only thinks of her as a sexual object and a mammy for her crippled baby, Alva Junior. In the end, Emma Lou realizes that she has become what she hates, which is someone who favors light-skinned people and is biased against dark-skinned people and that this is why all of her relationships fail. After realizing this, she leaves Alva and plans to go back to her old boyfriend John.

Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton was the first great composer and piano player of Jazz. He was a talented arranger who wrote special scores that took advantage of the three-minute limitations of the 78 rpm records. But more than all these things, he was a real character whose spirit shines brightly through history, like his diamond studded smile. As a teenager Jelly Roll Morton worked in the whorehouses of Storyville as a piano player. From 1904 to 1917 Jelly Roll rambled around the South. He worked as a gambler, pool shark, pimp, vaudeville comedian and as a pianist. He was an important transitional figure between ragtime and jazz piano styles. He played on the West Coast from 1917 to 1922 and then moved to Chicago and where he hit his stride. Morton's 1923 and 1924 recordings of piano solos for the Gennett label were very popular and influential. He formed the band the Red Hot Peppers.He fell upon hard times after 1930 and even lost the diamond he had in his front tooth, but ended up playing piano in a dive bar in Washington D.C. In 1938 Alan Lomax recorded him in for series of interviews about early Jazz for the Library of Congress, but it wasn't until a decade later that these interviews were released to the public.

Reinassance Topic Crystal jackson

My topic is about the rent parties that took place during the halem reinassiance I will be explaining what is rent parties. As well as the history that went behind the rent parties. There was also some controversy after this parties which you will learn more about . There is a role that these parties played in the harlem rensaisance. This seems like a very interesting topic to talk about for the halem renassiance. I saw this myself and wondered what is the this. That;s when I had to leran more about this. There is many parties in this day and age. But this is one that makes you ask what is this. Maybe one day you could want to have for yourself.

Rent parties originated from Harlem back as far as the World War. Many of these parties are thrown by African Americans in low income housing. In New York there were mainly caucasions but the tide of color increased rapidly, and as they moved in the whites moved out. The African Americans began to fill up the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Westchester. Another thing that increased was the rent of the apartments they African Americans lived in. Paying the rent wasn't easy, so they decided to have some friends pay to hang over, party, and chill out before the landlord's scheduled monthly visit.

Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson was a film and stage actor.

The Cotton Club

In the 1920s, heavyweight

Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in August 4, 19201 in a poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana and died in july6, 1971. He was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. His father William Armstrong abandoned his family when Louis was an infant and married with another woman. At the same time, his mother left him and his sister to take care of their Grandma, so he ended up living with his uncle Issac. At five, he got united with his mother, he attented the Fisk Shool for Boys. Besides shool, he also worked to get money, he collected discarded food and sold it to restaurant, tried to keep his mom from prostitution, but he could not. At eleven years old, he droped out of shool, formed a quartet club with some boys, and started singing on the street to make money. Louis Armstrong began developing cornet playing and was taught by professor Peter Davis, he made Louis a leader of the band. At 13, he started on his musical career. On march19, 1819 he married Darsy Parker and adopted 3 years old boy. Louis nearly spent most of his time taking care of the litte boy. Unfortunately, his wife died after a short time of marriage, and his career seemed go thriving since then.

Spanish Harlem

Spanish Harlem dealt with the economic depression, as well as the rest of Harlem, New York. Spanish Harlem, which is also known as "El Barrio" was occupied by Italians. During the 1950s, it became Spanish Harlem because Latinos took over that area. Specifically, people of Puerto Rican descent take over Spanish Harlem; They are known as "Nuyoricans." It's also the East part of Harlem that's predominately deficient of income. During the 1920s and 1930s, Spanish Harlem consisted of a lot of Latin music that its Latino community took a part of. As a part of the Harlem Renaissance, Spanish Harlem had a fair share of racism thrown at them, as well.

Jeff Badu about W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. DUBois

W.E.B. DuBois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. DuBois said, He was African American, French, Dutch and Native American and he considered himself to be African American. He considered himself African American because he wanted to be called African American and he felt that whites were unfair to blacks. He grew up during the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. DuBois was naturally gifted in school and he had a pride for getting past his fellow students in academics. His father was a former Civil War soldier and he left his family when DuBois was a kid. His father then went to Connecticut to build a life for DuBois and his mother. DuBois was a sociologist, historian, writer, editor, political activist, and co-founder of the NAACP. When DuBois was growing up, he did not have enough money to go to Harvard University, but he then received a scholarship to Fish College in Tennessee. DuBois then completed his masters’ degree at Harvard University in the spring of 1891. He became the first black person in American history to receive a doctorate degree. When he got to Ghana, he died in 1963 and he was buried in Ghana.

By Jeff Badu

Period 3

Their Eyes Were Watching God

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" is about an African American woman named Janie who spent her life depending on men. She married three men because her grandmother made her believe that she would be well off and everything would be substantial to her. During Janie's life and marriages, she always had a place to live, but each situation was not always comforting. Janie's first marriage was with a man named Logan Killicks. He was wealthy and he took care of Janie with tough love. Logan tried to make her do manual labor and put her in place. Janie did not want to stay with him any longer so she leaves .
Janie's next marriage was with a man named Jody Starks. Janie actually felt something for him because there was some significants and suaveness about him. Jody had plans of success and power. Eventually he got those things when he won Mayor of a community and the respect of the people in that community. He shared his success with his wife Janie Starks and she was happy for a while. Then, of course, as man receives power he becomes conceited and that is what happened to Jody Starks. His attitude changed towards Janie and she began to fall out of love with him. Eventually, Jody got sick and died and Janie was relieved, but also depressed she still loved him. It was just difficult for her to express her feelings.
After her marriage with Jody, Janie kept more to herself. At the age of forty she was a widow and living her life well off because she still had Jody Starks earnings in her possesion. Finally, she met Tea Cake and he was very smooth and won over Janie's heart. Janie's and Tea Cake's relation was based off of lust, but after a long while they made an actual relationship. This relationship went well. The only obstacle Janie had to deal with was the women that were coming on to Tea Cake. Janie did not want to be competition with anyone, but their relationship stayed strong. Unfortunately, a storm came along and Tea Cake got sick. He got a disease that drove him a little crazy. He attempted to attack Janie, but she shot him. She wept as he died because she knew that Tea Cake would never try to hurt her, it was just the disease that made him act that way.
Through three marriages she was looking for happiness and she finally found it but that unfortunatley came to an end. Janie learned you can not find happiness through marriage only through love.

Homosexuality in the Harlem Rennaissance

The Harlem Renaissance, an African-American literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s, had several important gay and lesbian writers. Many of the big and famous writers were gay or bisexual men such as Alain Locke, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Richard Bruce Nugent, and even the famous white sponsor Carl Van Vechten. Gay men were oppressed but black men who were gay were open about their homosexuality around other gays but when it came to the real world they kept it as a secret. At a time when New York still had laws banning homosexuality and when baths and gay bars were raided frequently. Gay men and women led amazing double lives. The culture of the Harlem Renaissance was open to sexual exploration and gays and lesbians, both black and white, thus they founded a community there. The jazz and blues clubs of Harlem were like a welcoming place to gays and lesbians of different races. In addition to the clubs of Harlem, private rent parties became a place where gays and lesbians could dance and socialize without fear of being arrested. Rent parties were private parties that people threw in their apartments to raise rent. Rent parties became places for gays and lesbians to mingle safely.

Aaron Douglas [Paige Ruppert]

Aaron Douglas Douglas graduated from Topeka High School in 1917. Douglas went to college at the University of Nebraska for his Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied the life of a German man named Winold Reiss. Reiss's teaching helped Douglas get an idea of modernist type of style. Since Douglas was already aware of the African and Egyptian designs, he later came aware of W.E.B DuBois and Alain Locke. W.E.B DuBois as well as Alain Locke were trying to let the world become aware of young aspiring African American artists who can express their African Heritage through art. Douglas was now a important part of the artist circle that later became known as the Harlem Renaissance. He drew out pictures for books, painted canvases and murals, and tried to start a new magazine displaying the work of young artist and writers. Douglass' type of style for the arts was a modern European, ancient Egyptian, and West African Art. Douglas was best known for somewhat abstract paintings, hard edges, and most of all repeating geometric shapes. He used a lot of the colors that were similar to the shapes and items that he painted pr drew to make things more realistic like. Aaron Douglas died on February 3, 1979, leaving his imprints of those who were young aspiring artist and writers.

Josephine Baker: Deon Lockhart

Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine Baker in a poor city in East St.Louis, Illinois on June 3, 1906. She was descended from Apalachee Indians and black slaves in South Carolina. Her father was a drummer and Josephine never really saw him. At the age of eight Josephine was hired out to white woman as a maid; she was forced to sleep in the coal cellar with a pet dog and was scalded on the hands when she used to much soap in the laundry. When she was thirteen she left home and got married but the marriage only lasted a couple of months. She began performing as a street musician in St. Louis and soon graduated to performing on the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit.In 1922 she landed a small part as a comedy chorus girl in the touring company of Sissle and Blake's musical revue "Shuffle Along". Josephine played her role very well and came to the attention of Sissle and Blake.They wrote a special part for her in their 1924 production of "Chocolate Dandies". French producers came to New York looking to cast an all-black musical revue in Paris. They saw Josephine performing at the Plantation club and offered her a part in their production La Revue Negré. In 1925 she went to Paris to appear in in the show. The show opened on October 2, 1925 in Paris at the Theatre Champs-Elysees.

Perfect Essay

Margerite was able to express herself through literature. Activities outdoors is a way that expresses me. Activities : fishing, hanging out with friends, and exploring are very enjoyable. I enjoy fishing because having patience while sitting outside gives a relaxing feeling. The exciting feeling runs through your body when a fish bites your bait as you reel in the bait. Fishing is really fun when you have friends to talk to. Talking about the past brings good memories and talking about the future gets you really motivated. Walking through the forest with your friends makes you enjoy nature. You are experiencing what nature really is and many others are unable to see nature. Pictures from the past brings back good memories.

Langston Hughes by Tre'Vionna

Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Hughes was famous for being an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist, but he became more famous for being a poet. Hughes was involved in many different activities that made him become well known. I personally read a lot of his poems and really like his poem called Madam and Her Madam:


Madam and her Madam
I worked for a woman,
She wasn't mean--
But she had a twelve-room
House to clean.

Had to get breakfast,
Dinner, and supper, too--
Then take care of her children
When I got through.

Wash, iron, and scrub,
Walk the dog around--
It was too much,
Nearly broke me down.

I said, Madam,
Can it be
You trying to make a
Pack-horse out of me?

She opened her mouth.
She cried, Oh, no!
You know, Alberta,
I love you so!

I said, Madam,
That may be true--
But I'll be dogged
If I love you!

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Langston Hughes

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes ... James langston hughes was born in missouri on February 1st 1902. His parents were divorced when he was very little and had to live with his grandma until he was 13 years old which is the age he had started writing poetry. It was also in Lincoln,Illinois where he started writing. He spent a year un mexico and a year at columbia university, where he gained odd jobs ending up as an assistant cook a busboy and even a seaman traveling all the way to europe and even Africa. it was from these experiences where he got his ideas for his poetry and for his books. he was always admired for his potrayal of life and its many colors.

W.E.B Du Bois

W.E.B Du Bois was the most prominent intellectual leader and political activist on behalf of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, he carried on a dialogue with the educator about segregation, political disfranchisement, and ways to improve African American life. He was labeled "The Father of Pan-Africanism."

Du Bois fought for political, educational, social, and economic equality and rights of all persons; specifically, he struggled to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination. By founding the NAACP

He fought for economic equality and rights of all persons. He was spirited devoted and scholarly dedicated to fight for equality. Du Bois was an attacker of injustice and a defender of freedom. He always opposed the view of lack of justice. Du Bois also fought for African Americans to be assimilated as equals into American society. He became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established by African Americans and one that had a civil rights focus.

Du Bois also struggled to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination. He was a writer who wrote about racism and discrimination. In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a book title “The Souls of Black Folks”. In it, he concluded that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men"

He believed that the key to breaking down racial barriers was for college-educated blacks to teach less fortunate blacks. He practiced what he preached. In 1895, after graduating from college, he became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. For over 10 years, he taught history and economics at Atlanta University.

Du Bois was invited to Ghana in 1961 by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct the encyclopedia Africana, a government production, and a long-held dream of his. When, in 1963, he was refused a new U.S. passport, he and his wife, Shirley Graha DuBois, became citizens of Ghana. Contrary to some opinions, he never renounced his US citizenship, even when denied a passport to travel to Ghana. Du Bois' health had declined in 1962, and on August 27, 1963, he died in Accra, Ghana at the age of ninety-five, one day before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. At the March on Washington, Roy Wilkins informed the hundreds of thousands of marchers and called for a moment of silence.