Bob Cole later teamed up with composer and lyricist John Rosamond Johnson to write the first two black operettas. The names of these two operettas were The Shoo-fly Regiment in 1906 and The Red Moon in 1908. The two would have written a lot more songs, but Bob Cole died at a young age. ... In Harlem, you could walk down the street and hear music from every corner to every street alley. ...
He walks to work every day and only drives the car on Sundays. ... He tells her he will make her get out and walk if she speaks again. ... The boys leave and walk down the street. ... She got off the train at its last stop and walked to a cemetery. ... She told him to walk with her to the train station. ...
Thus, the theme of independence and womanhood helped raise the status of African-American women, but inversely pointed out the inadequacies in the lives of non-African-American women. 4) SECTION 2 - Maya Angelou CHAPTER 1 "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise" These first two lines of the last stanza of STILL I RISE showed that African-Americans could be in control of their own environment by influencing the system of hierarchy that was established in slavery. ... In chapter two of WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, the passage briefly describes how poorly records were kept and how...
