He wants to point out that young girls went out late at night and were used as prostitutes. He describes them as his other black sisters. At times being forced to do this because of whites.
Aaron Douglas / From Slavery through Reconstruction
To show that African Americans have a voice. The guy in the middle is pointing out to the horizon as to indicate to move forward. And then you see an instrument to the right which is how they chose to move forward.
Billie Holiday / Miss Brown to you
This song is mainly about someone named Emily Brown but wants to be called Miss Brown. It has an upbeat feel to it. People want to be address the way they want.
Countee Cullen / Tableau
Acceptance and equality. These two had the courage to walk holding hands day and night. He wants to aim for a more fair and accepting society.
Jacob Lawrence / The Migration Series Panel 1
There was a huge increase of African Americans moving North. Places such as Chicago, St. Louis, and New York which is were Harlem lies.
Bessie Brown / Song from the Cotton Fields
The hard labor feels like African Americans are under control and are about to break. She points out that they are just waiting and they’ll get their time to be joyful and carefree. Just a matter of time.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
