Slide Images for October 28

 The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz, under guard by the state militia, 1932

 Ruby Bates & Victoria Price in 1931

 The crowd gathered outside the Scottsboro courthouse on April 6, 1931

 Protestors in Washington, D.C.

1935

Lovers

Ernest Crichlow

1938

 Harlem

Edward Burra

1934

 Havana Citizen

Walker Evans

1933

 The Brown Bomber

Robert Riggs

1939

 Book Jacket for The Negro Wage Earner

James Lesesne Wells

1930

 Mending Socks

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1924

 The Old Snuff Dipper

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1928

Octoroon Girl

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1925

Terms of the Day for October 28

• Jim Crow Laws – state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy.
• Proletariat – a term used to identify the working class in capitalist systems.  Members of this class do not have ownership of the means of production and therefore sell their labor to those who do.
• Capitalism –  an economic system that is based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods or services for profit. Other central elements include competitive markets, wage labor and capital accumulation.
• Communism –  established by Karl Marx, a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production. The movement claims that since the world has a superabundance of material wealth, societies can allow distribution based on need and social relations  based on freely associated individuals.

Slide Images for October 26

 Bread Line in Louisville, Kentucky

Margaret Bourke-White

1937

 Twenty Cent Movie

Reginald Marsh

1936

 Lord, Heal the Child

Thomas Hart Benton

1934

 Breaking the Prairie Sod

Grant Wood

1935-1937

 The Evolution of Negro Dance

Aaron Douglas

Harlem YMCA

1935

 Panel from Modern Medicine

Charles Alston

Harlem Hospital

1936

 Harlem Hospital Center Murals

Various Harlem Renaissance Artists

1936

 Between Acts

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1935

 Picnic

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1936

 Nous Quatre a Paris (We Four in Paris)

Palmer Hayden

c. 1930

Midsummer Night in Harlem 

Palmer Hayden

1936

Terms of the Day for October 26

• The Great Depression – a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement which followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and eventually spread worldwide.
• The New Deal – a  series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936 in response to the Great Depression and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is, Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) – the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
• Federal Art Programs (FAP) – was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal Works Progress Administration program in the United States.  It’s primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for non-federal government buildings: schools, hospitals, libraries, etc.