I Too by Langston Hughes I too sing America I am the darker brother They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes But I laugh And eat well And grow strong Tomorrow Ill sit at the table ID: 692252
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Slide1
The
Harlem
Renaissance Slide2Slide3
I, Too
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll sit at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed –
I, too, am America.Slide4
If We Must Die
by Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our
acursed
lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!Slide5
Jazz from the 1920s
Louis
Armstrong—Chicago Breakdown
Duke
Ellington--It Don’t Mean a Thing if it
Aint
Got that Swing
Louis Armstrong—Savoyager’s Stomp (20 seconds in) Louis Armstrong—Heebie Jeebies Scat singing (1:15 in)Slide6
Harlem
Renaissance
Art Slide7Slide8
Aspirations
Aaron DouglasSlide9
Blues
Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide10
The Ascent of Ethiopia
Lois
Mailou
JonesSlide11
Cocktails
Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide12
Into Bondage
Aaron DouglasSlide13
Saturday Night Street Scene
Archibald Motley, Jr.Slide14
Marcus GarveySlide15Slide16
Note on Commercial Theater
by Langston Hughes
…..But
someday,
somebody’ll
stand
up and talk about me
and
write about me
black and beautifuland sing about meand put on plays about me!I reckon it’ll be me myself!Yes, it’ll be me.Slide17
Juice Joint: Northern City
by Langston
Huges
….But
suddenly a guitar playing lad
whose
languid lean brings back the sunny south
strikes
up a tune all gay and bright and glad
to keep the gall from biting in his mouthThen drowsy as the rainsoft sad black feetdance in this juice jointon this city streetSlide18
Harlem
Edward
BurraSlide19
Jazz from the 1920s
Louis
Armstrong—Chicago Breakdown
Duke
Ellington--It Don’t Mean a Thing if it
Aint
Got that Swing
Louis Armstrong—Savoyager’s Stomp (20 seconds in) Louis Armstrong—Heebie Jeebies Scat singing 1:30 inSlide20Slide21