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- - - - Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.
        
        She was born on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, VA. and Died on June 15, 1996, in Beverly Hills, CA
  - - - He played on the West Coast from 1917 to 1922
        
        He was born on October 20, 1890 in New Orleans, Louisiana
        
        He was known as Jelly Roll Morton because at the age of fourteen he was playing piano at brothels and using smutty language.
        
        He started learning how to play Piano when he was 10
        
        He was the leader of Jelly Roll Mortons red hot peppers
      - Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe
      - He was always claiming that he was the inventor of Jazz
  - - - Died : April 12, 1975
        
        Josephine was a very headstrong woman, joining the French army , being a dancer, going head to head with the U.S . Government,
        
        She went from being an exotic dancer to an activist
  - - - Born: May 30, 1903
        
        Died: January 9,1946
        
        “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
        
        He was an African American poet, novelist, children's writer and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance.
        
        He was born and died in New York City.
        
        His name was originally Countee LeRoy Porter.
        
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  - - - Known as Empress of the Blues
- - - - His students were the ones who spared his interests
      - Was known as "The Dean of American Negro Poets" for his work in uncovering the humanity that breathed beneath the surface of racial stereotypes
      - Some of his students were playwright Ossie Davis, political activist Stokely Carmichael, and Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison
  - - - She was the first African-American member of her schools theater and literature student organizations
      - Went to Pratt Institute and graduated in 1924, then later moved to Paris to work at another school
      - Parents divorced, so she moved to Brooklyn where she attended an all girls high school
      - Later headed a Harlem Community School but was stopped due to an investigation of alleged communist activities
      - Born July 8, 1902
      - Later on her and her second husband started their own antique business until her husband died in 1980
      - Died May 30, 1981
  - - - Founder of the Daily American
      - He was the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florida.
      - He was a principal at a grammar school
      - In 1900 him and his brother wrote the song Lift Every Voice and Sing which later became the national Anthem of the NAACP. Later him and his brother when on and wrote 200 more songs.
      - He was a graduate from Atlanta University
      - In 1920 he became an executive chief of the NAACP.
      - Died on June 26, 1936
      - Born on June 17, 1871
      - He wrote many of stories and poems in his lifetime but some of his famous ones were God's Trombones and The Autobiography of a Colored Man.
  - - - Born on February 1, 1902
      - Most influential black poet
      - Died on May 22, 1967 at the age of 65
      - Published more than 12 volumes of poetry
      - He has written many novels, short stories, and plays.
      - At the age of 28 his autobiography was published
    - - "I, Too, Sing America"
        
        Published in 1945
        
        Quote - " 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.
        
        "Dreams"
        
        Published in 1932
        
        Quote - "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
      - "Negro Speaks of Rivers"
        
        Published when he was only a seventeen
        
        published in June of 1921
        
        Quote - "I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
      - "Harlem"
        
        Part of "Dream Deferred" book-length poem suite
        
        published in 1951
        
        Quote - "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"
- - - - This piece is the "Song of the Towers" Aspects of Negro Life. By. Aaron Douglas
    - - This is a oil on a canvas (seated man with head resting)
        By. Aaron Douglas.
  - - - He was an African American artist.
      - He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils and collages.
      - He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina
  - - - Her real name is Augusta Christine Fells
        
        She was born February 29, 1892.
        She was born in Cove Springs in Florida
        
        She died of Cancer in 1962
        
        When she was young, she wanted to become a sculptor. Her father disapproved of this. She sculpted from the clay she found around her home.
        
        She married Robert Lincoln Poston but he died after a year into their marriage. She had Irene Connie Moore with him. Later she married James Savage, and kept his last name after divorce.
        
        She slowly started to force herself to be accepted in society. Despite her race she never gave up and kept pursuing her dreams. She's a huge inspiration. She was a teacher and writer as well as an artist.
        
        Could have been based off her Nephew, but was most likely inspired by a homeless boy. She earned a trip to Europe through this sculpture.
        
        "Gamin"
        
        She often enjoyed sculpting small animals.
        
        She's a black sculptor during the great depression
        
        She started putting her art in the public. In some places, she failed and they wouldn't accept her. But she soon started attending a school where they gave her a scholarship and living quarters.