A Window for Opportunity: The Renaissance and Apollo
The Harlem Renaissance was a time for blacks to show their skills and improve their personal situation and as well as the racial setting in America. The Harlem Renaissance was a gateway for any type of talent such as writing, acting, singing, playing an instrument, playing sports, or painting. Big names in the literature corresponded with W. E. B. Dubois, George S. Schuyler, and Langston Hughes. They would write stories, essays, and novels on each other, racial dilemma’s, and propositions on how to fix Americas inequality problems. Musically famed people such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Earl Hines changed the way people saw music in almost every way. Jazz, blues, and smooth jazz all sounded so different but was taking the world by storm and impacted even the music we hear today. Singers like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Paul Robeson would have the people …show more content…
Marcus Garvey was a black man trying to convince the African American communities that they would never be accepted by the whites in America. His organization (United Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) was trying to persuade blacks that America was not the place for them and that they would have to move outside of the U.S. if they wanted to live a happy life. When the whites saw that what he was saying was moving the blacks they began to try to ruin his reputation by framing him with false felons. By doing so they locked him away and had him caught up in so many lawsuits that the African American communities began to forget about him. His image faded and his goal was lost. All of this negative happened because he wanted something positive for the blacks in America. He as one of the few that this happened to including Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. whom the government tried to ruin their image but were not as
The Harlem Renaissance was a time for blacks to show their skills and improve their personal situation and as well as the racial setting in America. The Harlem Renaissance was a gateway for any type of talent such as writing, acting, singing, playing an instrument, playing sports, or painting. Big names in the literature corresponded with W. E. B. Dubois, George S. Schuyler, and Langston Hughes. They would write stories, essays, and novels on each other, racial dilemma’s, and propositions on how to fix Americas inequality problems. Musically famed people such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Earl Hines changed the way people saw music in almost every way. Jazz, blues, and smooth jazz all sounded so different but was taking the world by storm and impacted even the music we hear today. Singers like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Paul Robeson would have the people …show more content…
Marcus Garvey was a black man trying to convince the African American communities that they would never be accepted by the whites in America. His organization (United Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) was trying to persuade blacks that America was not the place for them and that they would have to move outside of the U.S. if they wanted to live a happy life. When the whites saw that what he was saying was moving the blacks they began to try to ruin his reputation by framing him with false felons. By doing so they locked him away and had him caught up in so many lawsuits that the African American communities began to forget about him. His image faded and his goal was lost. All of this negative happened because he wanted something positive for the blacks in America. He as one of the few that this happened to including Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. whom the government tried to ruin their image but were not as