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Ethnicity and Dissent in American Literature and Art

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 00.04.04

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The Harlem Renaissance Births a Black Culture

Sandra Friday

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Websites

Jacob Lawrence http://www.kenyon.edu/projects/neh/art/pages/lawrence.htm

(a brief biography of Jacob Lawrence, including three of his Migration Series

paintings)

http://www.english.uga/~lboyd/gantner/migrat60.html

(All 60 images from the Migration Series are available at this site.)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_6.5.jacob1.html

(The third panel of Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series shows blacks leaving the

South with their belongings. This panel can be enlarged for a close-up view.)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanvisions/gallery/g_6.5.jacob2.html

(The fifteenth panel of Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series shows a black figure.

despairing under a lynch noose, in the South.)

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/lawrence.html

( a two-page biography of Jacob Lawrence with discussion of his Migration

Series with linking websites)

http://hudson.acad.umn.edu/Lawrence/WAMLaw.html

(a photo of Lawrence with his wife Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, with a brief

biography and image of his painting Dancing Doll)

http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/jacob_lawrence_b.htm

(an image of Lawrence’s painting The Street with a discussion of this painting

and Lawrence’s artistic)

http://www.stan-co.k12.ca.us/ceres/argus/gallery/JL-ART.htm

(an image of Lawrence’s Dancing Doll and a brief chronology of his life)

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/lawrence/lawrence_the_library.jpg.html

(a colorful image of Lawrence’s The Library, showing a library populated with

black figures. The image may be enlarged for close study.)

http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?79120+0+0

(an image of Lawrence’s Revolt of the Amistad which is simply timely, given the

completion of the ship in Mystic Seaport)

http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=53305+0+none

(an image of Lawrence’s painting Daybreak – A Time to Rest, one in a series that

tells the story of Harriet Tubman. This painting helps convey the range of

Lawrence’s historical work)

369th Infantry Regiment (a.k.a.: Harlem Hell Fighters) http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/369th.html

( photos of 369th and their victory parade including a historical account of

their role in WW I)

http://www.ritesofpassage.org/mil_wwone.htm

(history of 369th including photos and same of James Reese Europe with

additional account of artist Private Horace Pippin who documented his

war experience through his painting, years after the war ended.)

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfjre.htm

(site includes photos, and plays war tunes composed by James Reese Europe

Aaron Douglas

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/adouglas.html

a brief biography plus photo of Douglas standing in front of his mural.

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/dougharm.htm

a brief biography of Douglas including a portrait of the artist

http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/godstrombones.jpg

reproduction of Human Bondage from God’s Trombones

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