Homework due today:
- Listen to the Harlem Renaissance lecture (if you’re an expert, don’t forget to post here)
- Watch the YouTube video of Jacob Lawrence discussing his familial ties with migration below. Transcript here.
- Make sure you are able to login to the BC Library database. Watch the beginning of this video or read these instructions to do so
Watch David C. Driscoll talk about how the Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence relates to all of us. Transcript here.
Listen to Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington’s ‘Take the A train” below.





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- Augusta Savage, The Harp, 1939, World’s Fair in New York City. Image credit: “August Savage” by Tanner Demaggio, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- “Augusta Savage (1892–1962), “Gamin,” 1929, 9 x 5 x 4 Plaster, signed, Photo by Tanya M. Murphy, Joose Studios, LLC., Included in the Lafayette College exhibition, “In the Line of Duty: Collecting African American Art,” October 16-December 19, 2015″ by Lafayette Art Galleries, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- “Augusta Savage (1892–1962), photograph from 1938” by Daniel Baptise, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- “Selma Burke, Untitled (Woman and Child), Red oak sculpture, 1950 ” by Ali Eminov, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- “Catlett, Elizabeth (1919- ) – 1952 Sharecropper, woodcut print” by Milton Sonn, Flickr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0