The roots of blues music can be traced to Negro spirituals. ... Blues music is very structured in its form. ... During the Second World War, blues migrated to urban communities, as black people moved to major cities seeking work. ... Unlike blues, rap grew out of black urban America. ... In 2011, African Americans were reported to have about 16 times as many gonorrhea cases as their white counterparts. ...

• Word Count: 1900
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. Through the Blues, L. ... Here in his poem he considers his self as almost a composer of blues music, and plays with the rhymes and the rhythms as a musician. ... For James Baldwin a great writer of the beginning of the twentieth century Langston Hughes is always making "sermons, blues and prayers" (216) at the same time like in the poems Mother to son and The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ... With the same idea of sermons, blues and prayers the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers st...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... During the Harlem Renaissance the idea of the "New Negro" beca...

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This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... He further believed that his people could not achieve social equality by emulating white ideals, that equality could be achieved only by teaching Black racial pride with an emphasis on an African cultural heritage. ... In Harlem in the 1920's many people, both African-American and white, attended vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans. ... In Harlem, jazz music was extremely popular and influential. ... Jazz was an influential add...

• Word Count: 824
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The movement pushed for black self-assertion against white privilege and supremacy, advocated the term 'Negro' as a word of pride. ... During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ... It is neither white nor black nor in-between. ... Many African-American writers considered Toomer as a 'race traitor' as he so desperately tried to 'challenge his culture's demand for absolute distinctions between white and bl...

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African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. ... In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of African Americans as "something like a spiritual emancipation." ... White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark. ... Langston entered Columbia University and began living in Harlem, at that time an elegant section on the northern end of Manhattan Island that African American people were making their own. ... Hughes's poetry ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. This African American cultural movement became known as the "The New Negro Movement" and later was called the Harlem Renaissance. ... Black owned magazines and newspapers flourished, freeing African Americans from the influences of the white society. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ... Langston Hughes once said "The ordinary Negro hasn't heard of the Negro Renaissance....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New Negro is defined as a person who calls for social order and demands that blacks fight back against racism and segregation in American society. ... This new sense of pride also emerged in the form of literature, music, and theater. ... Many of the experiences described by these black writers, and even some white writers took place in the capital of black America, Harlem, New York. ... Black music became very popular all over the United States and Europe. White People came to Harlem in droves. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by W. ... The movement symbolized the militant ethnic pride of the New Negro, the fervent belief in the beauty and nobility of an African homeland, and the deep cultural cleft between Black and White America. ... This meant he felt that Negro people would have to develop self-sufficiency and no longer rely on seemingly altruistic efforts of other people. ... The book showed both sides of Harlem, helping create a "Negro vogue- that drew thousands of New Yorkers, black and white, to Harlem's exotic a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African American females are unique human beings. ... The first African American Woman I want to discuss is Phillis Wheatley born in Gambia, Africa in 1753. ... Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis. ... Another source said she was part Chippewa Indian, part African-American, and an orphan. ... Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white American woman physician to receive a medical degree. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehumanized and relegated to the position of non-citizens and often defined as fractions of humans. ... Carter Godwin Woodson to lead the struggle and search for the truth and institutionalize what was then referred to as "Negro History Week". ... Under Woodson's direction and contributions ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. ... In 1926 Hughes's first book, The Weary Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. ... In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." ... Afterward, a group of Hughes's closest friends recited on of his best-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." ... His support for left-wing politics and his sympathy for repressed people made him a popular figure worldwide, and sometimes a controversial o...

• Word Count: 1295
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A few weeks after being fired from The Count Basie Band, Bille became the first African-American woman ever to perform with an all white band led by Artie Shaw. She also became the first African-American to tour with an all white band in the segragated South. ... Artie Shaw faced a lot of pressure by white media to fire Billie and hire a white female artist. ... She performed the song at Cafe Society in 1939, but with fear of how people, (whites) would react to the song. ... Although she was struggling in her personal life, she she was a becoming somewhat of a jazz icon as well as becoming a m...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. ... In the early 1600's, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish settlements dotted the east coast of North America. ... In the year 1812, nearly 2000 blacks came to Nova Scotia after the war between the Americans and the British because once again the British promised freedom to all American Blacks who fought against the Americans. ... In the prairies, white and Black settlers shared the work of homesteading and relations between the two races were generally good and friendly. ... Life was n...

• Word Count: 2905
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• Grade Level: High School