1. The Harlem Renaissance

3. 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.

4. 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!

5. 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)

6. Harlem Renaissance Art

8. Aaron Douglas
Aspirations

9. Blues
Archibald Motley, Jr.

10. Lois Mailou Jones
The Ascent of Ethiopia

11. Archibald Motley, Jr.
Cocktails

12. Aaron Douglas
Into Bondage

13. Marcus Garvey

15. Note on Commercial Theater by Langston Hughes
…..But someday, somebody’ll stand up and talk about me and write about me black and beautiful and sing about me and put on plays about me! I reckon it’ll be me myself! Yes, it’ll be me.

16. 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 mouth Then drowsy as the rain soft sad black feet dance in this juice joint on this city street

17. Edward Burra
Harlem

18. 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 in

19. Archibald Motley, Jr.
Saturday Night Street Scene