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Angelina Weld Grimke
Angelina Weld Grimke was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1880. Angelina has a white mother and black father. Her mother's family was well known in Boston and her father was born into a family of slaves. Grimke was originally a teacher and moved to Washington D.C. After moving her writing career involving poetry, drama and short stories started to become popular. In 1916 she wrote a play titled "Rachel" that was produced by the NAACP. In the 1920's during the Harlem Renaissance is where she got most of her fame from through her poems. Her poems were published in The New Negro, Negro Poets and their Poems, and Caroling Dust. At the end of the 1920's she retired from teaching and took care of her father who was sick. Once her father had fallen ill she stopped writing poetry. -
Countee Cullen
Known as one of the most representative voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee was born in 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. He started writing poetry at the age of fourteen. Cullen went to New York University and began being published in The Crisis magazine, a magazine in which we have focused heavily on in class. In 1925 he graduated college and published some of his most notable work such as the poem "Ballad of the Brown Girl" and the collection of poems book title "Color". In Cullen's book it features a variety of over seventy poems. -
Langston Hughes
Born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri. He moved around for a while when he was younger. One of his destinations, Lincoln, Illinois is where his writing and love for poetry was born. In 1926 his first book of Poems was published starting off his career. Hughes said he took influence from poets such as Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. Langston became one of the biggest if not the biggest poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance. He continued to produce work up until his complications with cancer that ultimately was the end for him in 1967. The poem I chose, Mother to son tells a story of a mother talking to her son about her life, and how she has been trying to be successful and combat racism at the same time. Langston Hughes describes people who are white as climbing up a crystal stair, the path to success is a lot easier for them. However, the mother in Hughes' poem, her road to success has had splinters, darkness, tacks in it, and the boards are torn up. To which compares its self with the nice and beautiful crystal stair, showing a common goal of getting up the stairs but the stairs on the way there are very different. -
Ma Rainey- "Jealous Hearted Blues" 1924
One of Ma Rainey's very popular songs during the 1920's. -
Langston Hughes Digital "The Blues" Poem
Langston Hughes was a very popular poet during the Harlem Renaissance. This exact poem describes "The Blues" and the emotions regarding what was around it. -
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Langston Hughes Poetry
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Langston Hughes Poetry
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poem
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Claude McKay
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Face of an Old Woman
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Face of an Old Man
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Head of a Woman
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Head of a man
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Face of a Child
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Head of a Child
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Temple with Figure
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Temple Entrance
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Madonna of Consolation (on Base)
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Madonna of Consolation
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Madonna of the Empty Arms (red with yellow)
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Madonna of the Empty Arms (blue and yellow)
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Louis Armstrong
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Madonna of the Empty Arms (tan)
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Woman Praying