difficult for African American musicians to earn a stable, living wage. Moreover, white ownership of clubs, hotels, concert halls, and record companies created a power differential. In contrast, blacks were given less prestigious performance sites and regularly received inadequate pay for their artistic contributions and musical performances. Given these conditions, Pace and his colleagues decided to create a black-owned record company that would promote and support African American musicians, treating
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Art has this phenomenal way of making people think beyond the barriers that their mind has set for them. Whether that art form is a painting, a theater show, or a dance performance people have a changed viewpoint of the world after watching art in motion. Alvin Ailey didn’t just create art, but he embodied art. He not only influenced millions of people, but he impacted the African-American community through his art and his voice. By creating Alvin Ailey© American Dance Theater he opened up doors
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH By Gregory Anthony Tibbs Ben Vereen African American Influence on Dance in the United States, 1500-2000s AFR 3000 – 701 Eastern Illinois University Charleston, Illinois June 6, 2009 Ben Vereen Ben Vereen is a versatile and three-dimensional entertainer who has enlightened audiences by giving his heart and soul in his work to the African American community for over 25 years. Ben Vereen is currently part of a lecture circuit, an ordained minister and has
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Museum is known as “African American Panoramic Experience Museum” (APEX, 2012). The museum contains timelines about the African American culture. There is a time line describing the accomplishments of Africans. Some accomplishments include: mastering basic arithmetic, cultivating crops, carving the first colossal sculpture, and creating glass windows. The museum also shows pictures and artifacts from that time period as well. The museum also describes the process in which Africans were brought to America
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These agents on a daily basis would deal with complaints and concerns dealing with African-American families and their personal matters, whites threatening them regarding African-Americans’ work and labor contracts, and African-Americans objecting to whites cheating them of their work at the end of a harvest year. In addition they set up schools, negotiated and oversaw labor contracts, and argued for African-Americans’ rights in law. Throughout the year they filed reports about schools, civil order
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In event that was rather a stir up in the 1920’s was the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a time when African Americans all around showcased their artistic talents, showing the whites that they did indeed have talent. Obviously after the name “The Harlem Renaissance” was based in Harlem, New York. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of writers, artist, actors, musicians, and poets of color expressing themselves through their talents. They used these talents not only to express themselves
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place where they could express themselves, this is what was called the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a change in the way American blacks saw their race. It was a huge reinforcement of their cultural pride. They were finally able to rejoice and freely show their talents. This was an epic eruption in the culture, society, and art of black americans. Many intelligent successful authors were found during the Harlem Renaissance, among these writers were Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman
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on April 26, 1944, Dr. Na’im Akbar was raised in Tallahassee, Florida. There, he lived in a complete Black American social environment. It was not until his freshman year of college that he first had contact with the White American race. In 1971, he changed his name after joining the nation of Islam. He attended the University of Michigan to receive his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.), and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD.) in Psychology. Careers Upon receiving his terminal degree
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out of 12.8 million were of African descent and upon them settling after being brought here from Africa they brought many traditions and impacted the culture today. When they came to the United States they brought scientific and technological systems from the West and Central Africa as well as many food dishes such as; gumbo and rice, millet, sorghum, watermelon and black-eyed peas. They also brought tradition with them regarding funerals, celebration festivals, arts, music, dugout canoes, the banjo
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opposed to Christians, practicing Jews believe that the Messiah has not yet come. There have been many Jewish people who have contributed to who have contributed to American culture. We could start with Albert Einstein who was a world famous physicist and pacificst. He also served as a co-chair for twenty years of the American Crusade to End Lynching. Of course, the Holocaust and those that sought refuge in the United States forever changed our culture and how we
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