As the only Negro attending a white school he was occasionally exposed to beatings from other students and insults from one of the teachers. ... As Langston later recalls "So I learned early not to hate all white people," "And ever since it has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been." ... Langston was fascinated by black music especially the blues. It seemed to express for him the sadness and pain and capacity to endure that characterized black people of America. ... They remind us with all the unpleasantness there is no shame in ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... Music, poetry, jazz, blues and musical theater were flourishing for the African American in Harlem. ... (Gayle 2) He started to look for a job, however; employers were looking for white people only. ... He felt protection, because his people "The Negroes" surrounded him as he pointed out in his works. ... In addition, he tells to the "white" people, look at all what the Africans has accomplished. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• 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

During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music, theater, art, and politics flourished. ... The Harlem Renaissance brought African-American literature and art to the attention of "White America". ... During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music (jazz, blues, and swing), theatre, art, and politics prospered and were recognized by the mainstream population of America. ... Out of the Harlem Renaissance, which was also known as the New Negro Movement, developed great American artists. ... This new style of music caught the attention of many white Americans and soon became the most ...

• Word Count: 2498
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

[these songs] had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." ... (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America) He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. ... If colored people are pleased we are glad. ... Nevertheless, his love of gospel music led to other acclaimed stage efforts, usually mixing words, music, and dance in an atmosphere of improvisation. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

White poetry written about the experiences of white people was the only kind of verse most folks had ever heard. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. Hughes did not confine himself to revealing just the cadences of black music to his readers. ... If white people are pleased, we are glad. ...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Music with different beats was being played like jazz, spirituals, and hymns. ... Black literature, art, music, and theater were recognized and very popular. ... It was the first time that African American literature was taken seriously and attracted so many people. ... Also a lot of his writing expressed how hard black life was, "The Weary Blues" written in 1926. He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This man's main mission was to help enlighten people on the racial issues that were before them (Berry 5). ... They gave him the worst dormitory and a job on the newspaper reporting about the white fraternity parties. ... There, in Africa, he was treated like he was White and found that it was, in many ways, like reverse discrimination from what was in America. ... He once said, "Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America" (Berry 21). When Hughes returned to New York City in 1926, he became involved in the Harlem Renaissance, and published his first poet...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School