Transcript Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance
By
George
Harlem Renaissance Writers
• The first section of people I will show are
some of the male and female writers
during the Harlem Renaissance.
Male Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
“The Negro Speaks
of Rivers”
“Dream Deferred”
(Harlem)
Langston Hughes
1902 - 1967
POETRY:
Black Music, racial
affirmation, and racial
Joplin, Missouri
protest
Claude McKay
1889 – 1948
Jamaica, west Indies
POETRY:
injustices of black life
in America, romantic
love
“The Harlem Dancer”
Arna Bontemps
POETRY:
persistent will of
blacks to endure
“Black Thunder:
Gabriel's Revolt:
Virginia 1800”,
“American Negro
Poetry”
POETRY:
African culture
“four negro poets”
1902 – 1973
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alain Leroy Locke
1886 – 1954
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
“Invocation”
“The negro and his
music”
Female Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
WRITER:
“The streets”
“The narrows”
Dorothy West
1907 – 1998
WRITER:
“The living is easy”
“The wedding”
Angelina Weld
Grimke
1880 – 1958
Boston,
Massachusetts
WRITER, POET:
“ The eyes of my
regret”
“Trees”
Nella Larsen
1891 – 1964
Chicago, Illinois
NOVALIST:
“All the books of
my life”
Ann Petry
1908 – 1997
Old Saybrook,
Connecticut
“If We Must Die” by Claude Mckay
•
If we must die--let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die--oh, let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe;
Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
• I believe what this
poem is talking about
is, you should never
deny who you are and
always defend your
heritage.
Harlem Renaissance Entertainers
• The next group of people I will show are a
few entertainers during the Harlem
Renaissance.
Entertainers
“What a wonderful
world”
Louis Armstrong
1901 – 1971
New Orleans,
Louisiana
MUSICAIN:
Duke Ellington
1899 – 1974
Washington, D.C.
MUSICAIN:
Orchestra
conductor
“Check and double
Check”
Jelly Roll Morton
1885 – 1941
New Orleans,
Louisiana
PIANIST:
Jelly Roll Morton &
His Red Hot
“Wolverine blues”
“Potato head
blues”
Peppers
“Black and tan
fantasy”
“Mama Nita”
Harlem Renaissance Artists
• This last group of people you will see are a
few artists during the Harlem renaissance.
Artists
Aaron Douglas
1899 – 1979
Topeka, Kansas
Meta Vaux Warrick
Fuller
1877 – 1968
PAINTER:
African-American
spiritual identity
The Crucifixion
Cover for “ The
Crisis” magazine
SCULPTOR:
Afrocentric themes
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Beauford Delaney
1901 – 1979
Knoxville, Tennessee
PAINTER:
“Can fire in the park”
Conclusion
• In conclusion of this project I have learned
about more African Americans who
contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
Sites used
• http://www.montmartrevirt.paris4.sorbonne.fr/Map%20web%20site/Christine%2
0Montmartre/Harlem%20Renaissance.htm
• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/128
• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/25
• http://members.aol.com/Klove01/leroylck.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance#Activist
s.2C_Intellectuals.2C_and_Writers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance#Entert
ainers
• http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/poetry/cmck/poems.htm