Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement
1
Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement
Getting rid of the old culture and beliefs,
that blacks should want to be white, causing a few immense grief.
The Jim Crow laws were put into place to allow legal segregation,
throughout blacks and whites in the entire nation.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation and allowed African Americans the chance to soar.
For they had reached freedom at last,
with wings they could fly free from the past.
.
Louis Armstrong was feeling black and blue,
feeling inferior, one of the crew.
His only sin,
appeared to be in the color of his skin.
Billie Holiday sang of strange fruit,
people being hanged from trees
gone mute.
Benny Goodman was a white clarinet leader of a band,
who hired the first black musician to join his clan.
Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, and Gene Krupa were also members
who contributed to the bands’ splendors.
This can all be related back to Langston Hughes,
and his use of language to describe the racial mountain,
including those who could stand at the top, free within themselves, taking in the view.
Not all African Americans felt as if they were inferior,
although whites had the feelings that they were superior.
The racial artist had many trials to overcome,
Hughes brought attention to some.
Duke Ellington sought to avoid the Jim Crow laws
by housing his band in three train cars.
He refused to play in front of groups of whites
to command the band’s need for respect and their overall rights.
John Coltrane was a saxophone player
who was not outspoken,
a fabulous music composer and creator.
He connected his songs to a higher power amidst the broken.
Max Roach recorded two albums focusing on the civil rights movement,
raising concerns about African American treatment improvement.