He also wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing," now considered the Black national anthem.His novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man famously explored racial identity and social complexities after the Reconstruction era Public Domain 25 of 34 Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans who played a key role in music as the popularity of ragtime led to jazz. As the name suggests, the heart of the Harlem Renaissance was the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, which, like many other urban areas, saw a great influx of Black Americans who had left the South in favor of Northern cities that were less defined by racial segregation and racial violence. Du Bois, a co-founder of the NAACP and an editor of its magazine, The Crisis, and Marcus Garvey, a proponent of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), pushing for the eventual establishments of Black states around the world.
Author: Austin Harvey
Published at: 2025-04-28 23:00:00
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