1. Harlem Renaissance Gallery Walk

2. Archibald Motley

4. Billie Holiday

6. Chicago

8. Countee Cullen

9. Duke Ellington

11. James Van Der Zee

13. Josephine Baker

14. Langston Hughes

15. Louis Armstrong

16. “Back to Africa”

17. New York City

18. Paul Robeson

19. The Charleston

20. The Great Migration

24. Strange Fruit
By Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

25. I Have a Rendezvous With Life
By Countee Cullen
I have a rendezvous with Life,

In days I hope will come,

Ere youth has sped, and strength of mind,

Ere voices sweet grow dumb.

I have a rendezvous with Life,

When Spring's first heralds hum.

Sure some would cry it's better far

To crown their days with sleep

Than face the road, the wind and rain,

To heed the calling deep.

Though wet nor blow nor space I fear,

Yet fear I deeply, too,

Lest Death should meet and claim me ere

I keep Life's rendezvous.

26. “Dream Deferred”
by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

27. Harlem Renaissance

28. Civil
Rights
Movement

29. Jazz Age

30. Improvisation