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The first impression of Maggie L. Walker’s address is that it is poetic. It is the civil rights movement because it calls for a joining of men and women to unite for a single goal. She presents a valid argument for building and establishing a bank do that interest can be acquired along with other forms of municipal cash flows. She preaches a civil action about the good of her idea for the community not just a single person or set of people. Her proposition is presented through praise and resembles a mother bird pushing her baby bird from the nest to see if it will fly. She too is pushing her baby, the black community, from the nest, clutches of saving money in random cracks and crevices without collecting its full potential.
excerpt form Malcolm X's speech "Race War" "You got a bad habit. Your hooked and don't know it. You got what's known as "White's Disease". You think you can't get along without the white man. You think you can't get some clothes without the white man. You think you can't get a house without the white man. You think you can't even get a job without the white man. Your worse than the man who thinks he can't get along without heroin. Your worse than the man who thinks he can't get along without morphine. Your worse than the junkie, you're in worse shape than the junkie because, the junkie only has a little monkey on his back and your running around with a big white ape named Uncle Sam on your back. "
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The speech “race war” by pre-pilgrimage Malcolm X is an extreme calling that s characteristic of the civil rights movement. His speech is a cry for equality, justice, a land for the black community and revenge against the white man. It just so happens that now he sees the only way to gather support and a response from his people is to advocate violence and downplay the government. The purpose of this speech is to rally the black community to become fed up with the treatment they have received. Despite fallacies in his argument he builds a fiery fervor among his audience. What Malcolm X preaches seems more like the Harlem Renaissance where the blacks want a solace and equality with the white man. At the end of his speech he advocates use of peaceful protest by using the “truth” to fight the white man. This speech’s purpose is fulfilled by down talking the white man. Malcolm X Taking a superior view against the white man it easier for the audience to accept that the white man is wrong and needs to have revenge taken upon them. Malcolm X supplies a list of wrong doings by the white man and denouncement of “noble wars” fought by the white man on American soil. The civil war according to this speech was fought solely for white Americans and that blacks are not valued in America. The correlations between this speech and the Civil Rights movement are that he advocates peaceful protest, that the black community is treated unfairly and that there must be a change. He sounds more like a Marcus Garvey though because instead of ending segregation he wishes to build a black America.
music is a very influential form of art. Both Harlem's jazz and the re-occurrence of social gospel form the Civil Rights movement both impacted American history. Which music type do you feel made a greater imprint on American society.
Today rap battles establish serious street cred who would be the mac daddy out of these influential people of the civil Rights movement and Harlem Renaissance
The picture is of the black man that represents the Civil Rights Congress using the puppet of the KKK to torment an innocent black child. Like Bob Dylan’s mentioning the KKK are just pawns in the government’s game. Elizabeth is calling out not the pawns but the government. She is going directly to the source of discrimination and oppression. Her picture mirrors the Civil Rights movement because the people too protest against the government not the people. Her art work is a peaceful protest that stings the mind. The KKK represents death by being a skeleton and holding a noose. What is even scarier about the picture is that a black man who represents the Civil Rights Congress is controlling the KKK skeleton. This bold statement is a peaceful protest that mirrors the Civil Rights Movement’s characteristics of being peaceful and addressing the government.
song lyrics lyrics A bullet from the back of a bush took MedgarEvers' blood.A finger fired the trigger to his name. A handle hid out in the dark A hand set the spark Two eyes took the aim Behind a man's brain But he can't be blamed He's only a pawn in their game. A South politician preaches to the poor white man,"You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain.And the Negro's name Is used it is plain For the politician's gain As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game.The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid, And the marshals and cops get the same, But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool. He's taught in his school From the start by the rule That the laws are with him To protect his white skin To keep up his hate So he never thinks straight' Bout the shape that he's in But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game. From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks, And the hoof beats pound in his brain.And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide 'neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game. Today, MedgarEvers was buried from the bullet he caught.They lowered him down as a king. But when the shadowy sun sets on the one That fired the gun He'll see by his grave On the stone that remainsCarved next to his name His epitaph plain:Only a pawn in their game.
This song by Bob Dylan sums up the civil rights movement by being the camera behind the camera. The masses are upset with the government and the government appeases half the masses (the whites) and says “well you don’t have it as bad as they do” (they being the blacks). Then the government feeds the white masses through the education system that it is alright to discriminate against the blacks. This song calls out the government just as the civil rights movement does. It mentions, MedgarEvers a civil rights activist who called out the government who was meet with the wrath of the mindless pawns. The song puts the blame on the government which controls the laws that cause segregation and unjust treatment of blacks. MedgarEvers
The civil rights movement history The civil rights movement’s soapbox derby cart was pushed in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. This resulted in her arrest and a black boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott helped show the strength of unity among black Americans. Correlations among the civil rights movement and the Harlem renaissance include black unity, and making a peaceful statement. Unity among black Americans proved to be a very powerful tool and was utilized to form peaceful protests. Martian Luther King Jr. head manned the civil rights movement by utilizing non-violent protests until his assassination. These non-violent protests accomplished much and displayed a flowering of power through unity among the black community. Like the Harlem renaissance the civil rights drew it power through the unification of black Americans as one. Unlike the Renaissance the civil rights movement focused on turning all of America into a safe haven for blacks not just the city of Harlem. The Civil Rights movement and Harlem renaissance used only peaceful protests against discrimination. Both periods utilized the pen as opposed to the sword and the voice instead of the fist. The civil rights movement’s main source of overlooked art is embedded into the speeches by Martian Luther King Jr. and others like him. While the Harlem renaissance’s art is shown through music, poetry painting and sculpture. The civil rights movement proved just like the Harlem renaissance that unity and peace are exceptionally powerful tools when in pursuit of equality and recognition. The great people that held major roles in the civil rights movement and Harlem renaissance are still famous today for the great deed. The civil rights movement ended in 1968under the administration of Lyndon B Johnson and the signing of the civil rights act of 1968.
"Lolotte, Who Attires My Hair" by Jessie Redmon Fauset Lolotte, who attires my hair, Lost her lover. Lolotte weeps;Trails her hand before her eyes;Hangs her head and mopes and sighs,Mutters of the pangs of hell.Fills the circumambient airWith her plaints and her despair.Looks at me:'May you never know, Mam'selleLove's harsh cruelty.'
This poem by Jessie Redmon Fauset is an embodiment of the time period with its diction and obsession with the intangible object of love. The renaissance was an explosion of the Negro community displaying their ability to compose about intangible objects such as love. This poems purpose is to show the feelings and affects that love has on human being along with displaying the intellectual dexterity of a Negro woman. This poem also rhymes which is a characteristic of the Harlem renaissance. The diction in the piece is characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance in that it utilizes large words. Her hair is not styled it is “attired” the air is not just surrounding it is “circumambient”. Lolotte analyzes this weeping woman like a scientist performs naturalistic observation. Her analysis of the woman gives a feeling of supreme intellectualism and sage-likeness. The description of the woman displays the comprehension of the affects of a love lost upon another human. The poem does not mention anything about the woman except that she attires Lolotte’s hair. A person who attires hair can be a friend, peasant, celebrity hairstylist or any other social class. By not mentioning the social class of who is being described it shows the blindness to social class that the Lolotte wishes to show. This poem is a short insight of the level of comprehension the Negro community possesses. It shows that a black man or woman is not void of emotional comprehension and verbal dexterity. It is a “hey look what I can do “paper. It relates to the renaissance because it shows off the Negro community, rhymes and posses an obsession with the intangible object of love.
Countee Cullen male Harlem writer's sonnet "Yet I Do Marvel" I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brains compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing! ('Yet Do I Marvel')
This sonnet is written with the purpose of justifying Countee being a black poet. His poem says that it is god’s will that he is black and a poet. This poem relates to the Harlem renaissance because like him being a black poet in a racist society the Harlem renaissance is the greatest collection of Negros showing the greatest art they have and are still treated with discrimination, despite the artistic greatness. His sonnet utilizes rhyme, allusion, and irony. These elements effectively convey his message. The rhyme is reflective of the tasteful and entertaining dialogue of the renaissance where rhyme rolls off the tongue and onto the mind. Allusion to Greek mythology shows the rise in intellectualism among the Negro community, and the suffering that is unexplainable. The irony relates the renaissance to Countee. Rhyme sounds attractive and in this sonnet rhyme is abundant. Like the jazz dessert for the ears the rhyme serves the same purpose for the brain. Had this sonnet not rhyme it would have not been near as popular. The rhymes appeal not only to those searching for meaningful sonnets but to the casual reader. Anything that rhymes such as creative ad jingles or slogans sticks with a person more than a collection of words that flows as well as water being poured onto a super absorbent sponge. Allusion to the Greek mythology showcases the education level of the Negro and presents un-explainable suffering. Like the “tortured Tantalus” or doomed Sisyphus Countee too experiences discrimination that is unexplainable. Countee and the Greeks mentioned are not the only ones who receive discrimination unexplainable by man but so do all the Negros of America. Countee’s irony makes valid points clear such that god is great and protecting yet he delivers insurmountable demands and punishments. If god loves one so much than why does he punish them with such extremes punishments? There is also irony in Countee’s position as a black poet. Despite him being a great poet and being able to successfully write about his predicament he still suffers the pain of no recognition. Countee’s poem relates to the renaissance because it is the Negro man expressing his dissent over the injustice of racial discrimination in America home of the free. The Harlem renaissance is the uprising of the artistic expression by the Negro this sonnet is just reflection of that uprising.
Louis Mailou Jones’ piece of a family at Christmas dinner was painted to show the strength and warmth generated from a Negro family. This piece has 9 people packed into a tiny room covered with a glow from the fire that is comprised of hues that make the even the viewer feel warm . Every person except for the passed out child is very into the tunes produced by the family and banjo. One instrument is uniting this family as is Harlem uniting the scores of Negros and their wells of intellectualism and creativity. This painting also show that objects possessed solely through affluence as many white families have, are not needed for happiness by the Negro family. A picture of a white family would show the joy of the children due to what gifts they receive being the time is Christmas. It glorifies the negro family’s joy and warmth produced solely from family and unity and a lowly little banjo. In the window is the North Star a guide to salvation during the times of slavery. Showing this star is almost like paying homage to the north and the freedom it contains. The newspaper articles on the wall represent the negro produced newspapers during the renaissance that include stories about black people because of the magnificent things they did or composed not because some white owner lost one.
Imagine yourself partaking in an orgy. You are exposed , and everyone views you as beautiful. No matter how you look, to them whatever you got is whatever they want. Now in this orgy replace the sexually arousing drugs with poetry and jazz. The moans you hear are no longer the moans of people but the deep inner passion released in the form of novels and artwork. Everything that touches you turns out to be a steamy coating of “black is beautiful”. This is the Harlem Renaissance. Every piece of art composed during the Harlem Renaissance was viewed as sheer magnificence due to the inferno that burned in all the writers’ bowels that feed a furnace of desire to show what the black community posses. Every poem, novel, notes of a jazz band, and visual piece of art radiated a purpose. The main element that composed this renaissance would be the transferring of energy devoted to making gripes on the front porch that are viewed as a nuisance to making arts that people acknowledge. The invigoration released from the knowledge that there is a place for the African American to be an African fueled this art production. Harlem became the utopia of black freedom and expression.
