Jamie Mazon

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The Harlem Renaissance

• By
• Jamie Mazon
• Emily McPheron
• And
• Jackie Creasman

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Introduction to The Harlem Renaissance

• The Harlem Renaissance was a time when the
  African Americans grew and flourished.
• The New Negro Movement took place in that time,
  and it encouraged African Americans to take pride
  in themselves and their culture.
• The Harlem Renaissance took place in the 1920s.
• Other results from the Harlem Renaissance was a
  better education and The Harlem Gold trotters, a
  basketball team.
• The Harlem Renaissance lead to black and white
  people both integration and the Civil Rights
  Movement in the 1960s.

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Characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance

• Some of the common themes of The Harlem
  Renaissance was an interest in the roots of the
  20th century African American experience in
  Africa and the American South, and a strong since
  of racial pride for social and political
  equality.
• From the mid 1920s 1930s 16 African American
  writers published more than 50 volumes of poetry
  and fiction. While dozens of other African
  American artists expressed themselves by
  painting, making music, and theater.

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Pictures ofAaron Douglas
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Pictures of Aaron Douglas Work

• Aaron Douglas, study for God's Trombones gtgt
• Aaron Douglas, Idylls of the Deep South, 1934
  

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Pictures of Aaron Douglas Work

• Song of The Towers (1934) gt
• Into Bondage (1936)

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Aaron Doglas May 26, 1898 February 3,1979

• Aaron Douglas was born in Topeka, Kansas. He
  received his B.F.A from the University of
  Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922.
• In 1928 Mr. Douglas became the first president of
  the Harlem Artists Guild.
• Aaron Douglas also taught art in Kansas City for
  a few years before he decided then to become an
  artist, and went to New York to earn his MA from
  Columbia University.
• While working to become an artist he studied with
  a man named Winold Reiss who was an illustrator
  from Germany that told Mr. Douglas to look at
  African American art and themes for inspiration.
• Than in 1940 Mr. Douglas moved to Nashville,
  Tennessee, there he taught at the Art Department
  at the Fisk University and taught there for
  twenty-nine years.

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Analysis for Aaron Douglas

• Aaron Douglas work in my opinion is
  completely original and unique. It looks like he
  drew pictures of the labor and hard times that
  African Americans went through.

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Pictures of James Weldon Johnson
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James Weldon Johnson's Poetry- Lift every Voice
and Sing.
Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chast'ning
rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been
watered. We have come, treading our path through
the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the
gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where
the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God
of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way
Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the
light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God,
where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with
the wine of the world, we forget Thee Shadowed
beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to
our God, True to our native land.
Lift ev'ry voice and sing, Till earth and heaven
ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty Let
our rejoicing rise High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a
song full of the faith that the dark past has
taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the
present has brought us Facing the rising sun of
our new day begun, Let us march on till victory
is won.
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More of James Weldon Johnson's Poetry-Listen,
Lord A Prayer
And now, O Lord, this man of God, Who breaks the
bread of life this morning-- Shadow him in the
hollow of Thy hand, And keep him out of the
gunshot of the devil. Take him, Lord--this
morning-- Wash him with hyssop inside and out,
Hang him up and drain him dry of sin. Pin his
ear to the wisdom-post, And make his words
sledge hammers of truth-- Beating on the iron
heart of sin. Lord God, this morning-- Put his
eye to the telescope of eternity, And let him
look upon the paper walls of time. Lord,
turpentine his imagination, Put perpetual motion
in his arms, Fill him full of the dynamite of
Thy power, Anoint him all over with the oil of
Thy salvation, And set his tongue on fire. And
now, O Lord-- When I've done drunk my last cup
of sorrow-- When I've been called everything but
a child of God-- When I'm done traveling up the
rough side of the mountain-- O--Mary's Baby--
When I start down the steep and slippery steps
of death-- When this old world begins to rock
beneath my feet-- Lower me to my dusty grave in
peace To wait for that great gittin'-up
morning--Amen.
O Lord, we come this morning Knee-bowed and
body-bent Before Thy throne of grace. O
Lord--this morning-- Bow our hearts beneath our
knees, And our knees in some lonesome valley.
We come this morning-- Like empty pitchers to a
full fountain, With no merits of our own. O
Lord--open up a window of heaven, And lean out
far over the battlements of glory, And listen
this morning. Lord, have mercy on proud and
dying sinners-- Sinners hanging over the mouth
of hell, Who seem to love their distance well.
Lord--ride by this morning-- Mount Your
milk-white horse, And ride-a this morning-- And
in Your ride, ride by old hell, Ride by the
dingy gates of hell, And stop poor sinners in
their headlong plunge.
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Facts!

• 1871-Born in jacksonville Florida
• 1894-he graduated from Atlanta University
• 1897-He was the first African American admitted
  to a Floridar bar
• 1899- Wrote lift every voice and sing with his
  brother
• 1906-In the Us consul, Puerto Cabello, Venuzuela
• 1906-In the US consul, Corinto, Nicaragua
• 1920- Appointed exectutive secretary of NAACP
• 1921 Wrote first novel "The Autobiography of an
  Ex-Colored Man"
• 1922 Collected poems of black poets in "The Book
  of American Negro Poetry."
• 1927 With brother Rosamond, published "God's
  Trombones"
• 1930 Became professor at Fisk University
• 1933 Wrote autobiography, "Along This Way"
• 1938 Died in automobile accident in Maine

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Analysis for James Weldon Johnson.

• James Weldon Johnsons poetry in my opinion is
  very religious and based mainly on god and folk
  like singing. I think it is very different from
  most poetry I have read.

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Louis Armstrong

• Louis Armstrong, also known as Satchmo was born
  on August 14, 1901, in New Orleans Louisiana.
  Louis was the best Jazz Musician. He did American
  Jazz, played the cornet and trumpet, he was also
  a bandleader and an entertainer. Louis overcame
  poverty, bad education and racism, he became one
  of the most influential musicians of the 20th
  century, and also one of the most beloved
  entertainers in the world. He is reasonably best
  known for experimenting a type of music called
  swing, which later became the basics jazz,
  rhythm, and blues music.

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Facts

• born in 1901, and died in 1971
• he Joined King Olivers group in Chicago in 1922.
• married the pianist in King Olivers group, her
  name was Lilian Hardin.
• his dad left the family when Louis was only a
  baby, after, his mother left too
• In the early 1930s, he started his first world
  tour, visiting England, Germany, an other
  countries.

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Pictures of Louis Armstrong
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Analysis for Louis Armstrongs Song A Wonderful
World

• I think that the song, A Wonderful World is a
  good song, that the song explains that he likes
  the world even though his childhood wasnt the
  best.

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Conclusion

• In conclusion, Aaron Douglas, James Weldon
  Johnson, and Louis Armstrong were major parts in
  the Harlem Renaissance. They played a major role
  in the community. Aaron Douglas was an amazing
  artist who expressed his feelings through his
  art. Louis Armstrong was an inspiring jazz
  musician. James Weldon Johnson was a great poet.
  All of these people were excellent people who
  inspired the world.

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The End