Cab Calloway

Before the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. The “Great Migration” relocated hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North (The Harlem Renaissance). African Americans started leaving the south in large numbers. They moved north to cities such as New York City, Chicago, and Washington D.C. (Rau, Dana Meachen). They were trying to escape from slavery and the awful Jim Crow Laws, also many had little

attended by more than 20,000 people and hundreds more stood outside the church to honor him. Soon after his death, a movie about his life, St. Louis Blues (1958) played in theaters all across America featuring stars like, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway and Pearl Bailey (Biography.com

Nowadays, certain style of music are becoming more involve in our society than others. For instance, the R&B and Rap/hip pop are now getting the top on the Medias. We will try to explore those music’s gender. We will try to understand why and how they are what they are now? The R&B first of all stand for rhythm and blues and could be define as a new born of music style which has gotten his origin from rhythm, blues, pop funk, and dance. Rhythm and blues, usually abbreviated R&B was a genre of popular

basically where most African Americans were noticed for their great talents, such as playing jazz music.  “Some of the most celebrated names in American music regularly performed in Harlem—Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and Cab Calloway, often accompanied by elaborate floor shows.” (Harlem Renaissance,1)   Women were allowed to go to school, but not as long as men were. Schooling also changed like they attend school longer than usually, also got more learning experience. They

After the Grambling Band played in the Super Bowl, in 1968 grandpa wanted to become a better trumpet player. He hopped to have a starring role in his band’s upcoming performance for the president of Liberia. He talked to his instructor to ask how he can get better and play a starring role of trumpet in front of William T. Robert. His instructor said if you want to play as the star trumpet player you have to be the best trumpet player in the band. There was 25 trumpet players and they all had unique

and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.” Some jazz musicians even celebrated their marijuana use with songs such as “That Funny Reefer Man” by Cab Calloway, “Gimme a Reefer” by Bessie Smith, and “Muggles” by Louis Armstrong. Accordingly, he kept personal files or “gore files” on many celebrities. Consequently, various celebrities were arrested, including Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie

What if segregation was a part of our everyday lives, as common as it is to brush one’s teeth. Thanks to Thurgood Marshall, today’s generation will never know the horrors of segregation and extreme racism. Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the court's first African American justice. Marshall experienced segregation growing up, going to exclusively black schools. When applying to a school that was below his league yet being rejected because of his color, he made it his

therapy on dementia patients. He hones in on a case that was featured in the documentary “Alive Inside”. Henry, an elderly man with late stage dementia is given the chance to listen to some music. The music therapist plays his favorite artist, Cab Calloway and Henry begins to light up, move and remember feelings he had when he was younger and heard that song. The music therapy didn’t restore what was lost but it was able to have positive effects even after the song stopped. It awakened parts of his

Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil right propagandist. Therefore, Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments. First, as legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he guided the prosecution that devastated the legal groundwork of Jim Crow segregation. Second, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and the nation’s first black justice. He crafted a particular jurisprudence

In 1919 at the tender age of two, Lena Horne made her first public appearance on the cover of the Branch Bulletin, a publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was touted as the organization’s youngest member. Lena would go on to become a noted singer, dancer and sex symbol. Not content to revel in her fame, Lena became an advocate for civil rights and the abolishment of segregation. Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born to a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New