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She might be called the reason for this whole thing. Teacher, editor, and author of a black-white narrative.
Who is Jessie Redmon Fauset?
She is Fauset's creation, and she and Larsen's character have something strange in common.
Who is Angela Murray?
This is where it all started--and where Sinners is set.
What is the Mississippi Delta?
"Lift Ev'ry Voice" was originally written to celebrate this person's birthday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This term describes the ways that African Americans have to be constantly aware of who they are and who others think or assume they are.
What is double consciousness?
He was the son of formerly enslaved people who went on to become a literary icon.
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
She is shook at the revelation that her friend isn't what she appears.
Who is Mary Hastings?
The Blues made way for this genre of music that Hughes devoted so much of his poetry to.
What is jazz?
They originally sang the song, which gave the composer a great amount of joy.
Who are children?
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured man is similar to other Harlem Renaissance novels but draws on this even older trope.
What is tragic mulatto?
He was a jack of all trades, and he and his brother collaborated on something we still hold dear.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
This always seems to be the place where the tea is spilled.
What is school?
In West Africa, these elders were responsible for passing down stories and culture through music.
What are griots?
This organization adopted the song and made it the staple it is today.
What is the NAACP?
This term comes from a word for animals and was used during slavery to describe biracial people.
What is mulatto?
He graduated from Harvard two times and later founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
What is passing?
While Johnson relies on it, Delta Slim says it is forced and the opposite of the creativity of the blues.
What is Christianity?
The song is now called this and sometimes sung alongside another popular composition.
What is the Negro National Anthem?
This term describes payments and acts of restoration given to descendants of slaves by the U.S. government.
What is reparations?
He attended Columbia, and he keeps coming up because he is arguably the face of the Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Out of "convenience" or omission, this is still a form of colorism.
What is passively passing?
The blues are often melancholy and without resolve, which is why "The Weary Blues" have not-so-subtle mentions of death the way most blues songs deal with this.
What is heartbreak?
This place is alluded to at the end of the song as something we should remain "true" to.
What is Africa?
This was created to rehabilitate those formerly enslaved--but it fell apart very quickly.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?