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Childhood Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1903 , in Eatonville, Florida. She was the fifth of eight children of the Rey John Hurston, who became a mayor of Eatonville. Zora's mother, Lucy that was a teacher, died when Zora was thirteen years...

Jacob Lawrence "I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools... I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro." Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence was...

It Don't Mean A Thing "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing It don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing It makes no difference If it's sweet or hot Just give that rhythm Everything you've got It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...

Billie Holiday April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 Billie « Lady Day » Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915. She was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She knew a childhood very difficult to put into verse by rape, prostitution and passage in prison....

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Club De Luxe at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920. Owney Madden, a prominent bootleggerand gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the...

The capture Baaba Djibo lived in a small village on the west coast of Africa. One day in June, 1837, as he was coming back to his village after visiting a sick aunt, he was captured by a band of African slave traders. He was then forcibly taken to a group...

so? who's the Artist singing?????

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/history/harlem-renaissance.jsp After the American civil war, liberated African-Americans searched for a safe place to explore their new identities as free men and women. They found it in Harlem....

Here's the grid we have done in class: HISTORICAL TIMELINE : http://www.pbs.org:80/wnet/aalives/timeline/index.html DATE FACTS MORE INFORMATIONS 1619 The first African Americans arrive in Jamestown , Virginia and are puurchacd by the colony’s leaders...