The Harlem Renaissance The Music Bessie Smith The

The Harlem Renaissance

The Music Bessie Smith “The Empress of Jazz” 1894 -1935 Cab Calloway “The King of Swing” 1907 -1994

The Music Duke Ellington “The Duke” Louis Armstrong “Satchmo” 1899 -1974 1901 -1971

The Writers December 1919 Last night I heard your voice, mother, The words you sang to me When I, a little barefoot boy, Knelt down against your knee, Claude Mc. Kay 1889 -1948 And tears gushed form my heart, mother, And passed beyond its wall, But though the fountain reached my throat The drops refused to fall. ‘Tis ten years since you died, mother, Just ten dark years of pain, And oh, I only wish that I Could weep just once again.

The Writers Zora Neale Hurston 1903 -1960

The Writers The Wise Dead men are wisest, for they know How far the roots of flowers go, How long a seed must rot to grow. Dead men alone bear frost and rain On throbless heart and heatless brain, And feel no stir of joy or pain. Dead men alone are satiate; They sleep and dream and have no weight, To curb their rest, of love or hate. Langston Hughes 1902 -1967 Strange, men should flee their company, Or think me strange who long to be Wrapped in their cool immunity.

On Stage Paul Robeson 1898 -1976 Josephine Baker 1906 -1975

Politics Co-Founder of N. A. A. C. P. Founder of UNIA W. E. B. Du Bois 1868 -1963 Marcus Garvey 1887 -1940 “Back to Africa Movement”