The poem reveals the isolation and experience African Americans went through, during this time. African American individuals wanted to feel equal and accepted. This influenced the writing of Langston Hughes conveying the hopes that many experienced during the Harlem Renaissance for equal job opportunities.
Study for Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South by: Aaron Douglas
The image portrays many aspects of what the African Americans suffered through and how that brought them together. As illustrated, the Harlem Renaissance offered them a gateway from the physical and societal toll that was forced upon them for the color of their skin and offered ways in which they could value themselves and appreciate their culture. The image elucidates some of these activities of self expression in the form of dance, music, and storytelling amongst people that share this same experience.
What A Wonderful World by: Louis Armstrong
The personal life of the African Americans is revealed partly through this song, in a mixing of jazz with poetic rhymes to illustrate stories of love and beauty amongst their world of culture and appreciation for the elements around them.
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
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]
