The New Negro

The New Negro

The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance what was painted by a man named Aaron Douglas. The name of the piece was created for the book The New Negro by Alain Locke. The art work is meant to depict different parts of Afro-American history. You see on the left people picking cotton in a field and as the painting moves right, it changes to what seem to be the Harlem Renaissance, which is characterized by the sillottes of jazz players and dancing people. The New Negro as we learned was a way of describing the new culture that was rising, one that did not stand for the Jim Crow laws of the south or of segregation.

Aaron Douglas

"Treasures of The New York Public Library." Treasures of The New York Public Library. Web. 15 Dec. 2015.

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Alexander Vidal

Alexander Vidal