Gwendolyn Brooks is a prominent African American poet of the twentieth century, and is known for her indelible impact in African American literature. Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Soon after her birth her family moved to Chicago, the city where she was associated with the rest of life...
I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. ... Although New York wasn't perfect for him it was better then the South. ... The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities was characterized by "push" and "pull" factors. ... By the mid to late 1920's, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing in New York City. ... Harlem became a fad for middle class, whit, New York. ...
Jon Rice's The World of the Illinois Panthers and Johanna Fernandez's Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City discuss the mobilization of grassroots to find solutions to the ills that plagued the black community. The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... Dur...
In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... The movement centered in the vast black ghetto of Harlem, in New York City, where aspiring black artists, writers, and musicians gathered, sharing their experiences and provided encouragement to each other. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....
African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". ... So I wrote a poem about it called "Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria," modeled after an ad in Vanity Fair announcing the opening of New York's greatest hotel. ...
In 1945, Starling boarded the Silver Meteor bound for New York. ... Once trapped in the ghetto it became exceedingly challenging to evade, and when the Gladney's were finally able to move into a house in a white area, all of the whites fled to the suburbs leaving the area crime infested and drug ridden. ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...
Good Times appeared on 1974 (Ingram "Good Times") Florida and James Evans were lower middle-class blacks, with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the south side of Chicago. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... The Huxtable residence, in New York City, where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. ...
However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ...
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."... The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from Langston Hughes's weaving of the rhythms of African American music into his poems of ghetto life, as in The Weary Blues (1926), to Claude McKay's use of the sonnet form as the vehicle for his impassioned poems attac...
The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ... As more and more educated and socially conscious blacks settled in New York's neighborhood of Harlem, it developed into the political and cultural center of black America. "In the history of New York, the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro (Johnson, 1925)."" ... Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass-roots ...
"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass at an Independence Day speech in New York. ... The New York Herald Tribune said "the cause of Negro equality" lost nothing "valuable by Malcolm X's passing" because "he was a destructive force." ...
Is it a disbelief that many Africans think African-Americans are lazy, ghetto, wild, careless, untrustworthy, devious, and they are continuously complaining about racism when everything has been given to them? ... Although some Africans may be in extreme poverty, Americans need to understand that just how we have rich people in places like Hollywood or New York, Africa is also made up of different areas and many different countries where people may be wealthy or they may be poor. ... Although not all African-Americans are gangsters and thief's or ghetto and trashy, the ones that do fall u...
Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ...
The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ...
