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.

Slide Images for October 21

 Barbeque

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1934

 Paramount Advertisement for Leothus Green

1925

Advertisement for “The Jazz Singer”

1927

Lucky Strike Advertisement featuring

Al Jolson

1927

“The Jazz Singer”

Directed by Alan Crosland

1927

Jockey Club

Archibald Motley, Jr.

1929

Sur un Air de Charleston 
Directed by Jean Renoir
1926

Photographs of Josephine Baker
c. Late 1920s

Advertisement for Revue Negre
Paul Colin
1925

Advertisement for Bal Negre
Caron
1927

African Dancer
Richmond Barthé
1933

Dance Figure

Richmond Barthé

1935

Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar Acceptance Speech
1940

Terms of the Day for October 21

• The Harlem Renaissance - a period in the 1920s and 1930s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished, characterized by a deliberate reconnection with traditional and ancient African arts.
• Mammy Archetype – a reference to African American women in a time when Africans worked as domestic servants/slaves. She is often portrayed within a narrative framework or other imagery as a domestic servant of African descent, generally good-natured, often overweight, very dark skinned, middle aged, and loud.
• Jezebel Archetype – a term with roots in the biblical character Jezebel often used to describe the stereotypical primitive, sexually promiscuous, and sometimes controlling black woman.
• Primitivism – a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples; those that were considered “primitive”.

Slide Images for October 19

Couple Wearing Racoon Coats with a Cadillac, Taken on West 127th Street, Harlem New York

James Vanderzee

1932

Scenes of Harlem Life from the 1920s

I, Too

Langston Hughes

1932

Black & Tan Fantasy
Duke Ellington
1927

 Black Prophet 

from Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro

Winold Reiss

1925

Portrait of Langston Hughes

Winold Reiss

c. 1925

Self-Portrait

William H. Johnson

1929

Anna Washington Derry

Laura Wheeler Waring

c. 1927

 Wall Painting From the Tomb of Nebamun

Egypt

c. 1450 BCE

 Scene from The Papyrus of Hunefer

Egypt

c. 1375 BCE

Fang Mask

Gabon, Africa

19th century

 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

1907

 Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Pablo Picasso

1910

 Play De Blues/Misery

Illustration by Aaron Douglas

Poem by Langston Hughes

1927

Song of the Towers

Aaron Douglas

1934

Crucifixion

Aaron Douglas

1927

Aspiration

Aaron Douglas

1936