Pont du Gard

Since the birth of our nation, African Americans have undergone significant changes from slavery, the Reconstruction era and eventually the civil rights movement. These battles have been fought by prominent leaders both black and white. Some examples of early African American struggles include vicious crimes from southern whites that resulted in nearly zero prosecutions, voting rights controlled by violence and intimidation and sharecropping which kept them in debt. Certain laws were ignored…

The definition of Renaissance is an period where the forms and treatments of art is being used. There was a famous Renaissance that occurred in Europe during the 14th century that extended to the 17th century allowing a transition from the medieval to the modern world. In addition, there was a renaissance that emerged in the United States from the 1920s (around the end of World War I) to the mid-1930s. This Renaissance occurred in Harlem, New York. It was known as the “New Negro Movement” before…

As the narrator moves on discovering what and who he truly is he eventually discovers his true identity, which ironically is the identity of those in the midst of him as his revelation is that within the sea of people, he truly is just another invisible man. As a young, black man among other young, black men that were never expected to get out of their little ‘hole’ and achieve anything, our narrator had ambitions that nobody anticipated would be fulfilled. As everyone told him, “You’re nobody…

The Jazz age was a time of partying, dancing and jazz music; it was careless and fun for everyone who participated. The era began in the 1920’s but ended when the Great Depression started and it was mostly in the United States, Britain and France. Jazz music became a part of everything, its rhythm and beat was used in a lot of art forms, especially in poetry. Poets responded to Jazz music by making a rhythm in their poems and using sounds that particularly jazz instruments made in their poems,…

African Americans have been through trying times in which some people would not have been resilient to make it. To come out of bondage and make a firm stance in the literary era is phenomenal. Since studying several periods, the literature of Harlem Rennaisance has had the most profound impression on me. The Harlem Renaissance was a blossoming time of African Amerian culture. African Americans were some of the most creative individuals that embraced, music, liberal arts, poetry and dramatic…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time when the African American community flourished. It was a time of great discovery, mostly in the arts. Many wonderful African American poets, authors, musicians, and artists emerged during this period and are still highly regarded to this day. Those that rose up created a voice for the African American community, and paved the path for others to join them. The explosion of cultural pride during the Harlem Renaissance led to social change for African American…

In 1927 a man by the name of Marcus Garvey created the People’s Political Party, the first political party on the island of Jamaica (Hill, p.23). Garvey was running for an seat with the assembly but due to his explicit racial based platform, Garvey failed to win a seat. During the 1920-1930s, many unions cam about to represent the black middle class. The most significant was the Jamaican Workers and Tradesmen Union, upon which Alexander Bustamante rose to fame. The purpose of these organizations…

of African American scholarship other transcending organizations arose. The fruit bore from these transcending organizations provided the core leadership and game changers that shaped the twentieth-century black experience. Too name a few: W.E.B Du Bose, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, Walter White, Benjamin Mays, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Adam Clayton Powell, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Barbara Jordan to current leaders and game changes Lyretta Lynch, Michael Jordan, …

The Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement because during the Harlem Renaissance era its arts— “in poetry, fiction, drama, music, painting, and sculpture”—proved the new ear of achievements for African Americans that were “hardly more than a half-century removed from slavery and enmeshed in the chains of a dehumanizing segregation.” Hence, the Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement as this marked the birth of African American artists— “the foundations for…

In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois criticizes Washington’s “programme” that, “practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races,” and accuses Washington of “[withdrawing] many of the high demands of Negros as men and American citizens” (Du Bois). There was, indeed, an opposition of Washington coming from black people who believed they deserved equality, in all senses of the word…