Let my People go (UNFINISHED VER)

when was let my people go made?

1935-39

when/where was Douglas born

1899 Topeka, kansas

when/where did Douglas graduate from college

1922, university of Nebraska school of the fine arts

how long did Douglas work as a high school teacher

2 years

where did Douglas teach high schoolers at

kansas city, missouri

who was the editor of opportunity?

charles s johnson

what organization published opportunity

national urban league

what was the national urban league’s goal

to advocate for black rights

who encouraged Douglas to go to New york

charles s johnson

when did Douglas go to New york

end of 1925 school year

where was winold reiss from

germany

what did reiss encourage Douglas to do

use african elements in his art

what was reiss best known for

portraits of New negro leaders

what new negro leaders did reiss make portraits of

web du bois and Langston hughes

what journal did the NAACP publish

crisis

what journals did Douglas draw for

crisis, opportunity, and fire!!

what season did Alain locke's NN book come out

fall

when did Douglas briefly go to paris

1931-32

what are some of douglas’ famous murals

fisk (1930), new York public library (1934), and Texas centennial expo (1936)

when did Douglas teach at fisk

1940-66

when did Douglas die

1979

where is fisk located

nashville

how many colored versions of gods trombones paintings did Douglas make?

8

how big is let my people go

3×4 feet

what book is let my people go taken from

exodus

what did spirituals serve as the foundation for?

blues and black popular music

when did Johnson serve as the executive secretary of the naacp

1920-30

what role did Johnson have in the naacp

executive secretary

what was johnson’s greatest contribution

legal protections against lynching

how many victims were there of lynchings from 1880s-1950s

4 to 5 thousand

what were some deadly race riots in the 1920s

east st. Louis, Illinois (1917), ocoee, Florida (1920), and tusla, oklahoma (1921)

the Illinois, Florida, and Oklahoma riots all had more than ______ deaths

40

when did ida b wells begin her work against lynching

1890s

why did the naacp form

1908 Springfield illinois riot

where was the first modern race riot

springfield illinois

who wrote the clansman and when

thomas Dixon, 1905

when was the dyer bill introduced

1918

what was the goal of the dyer bill

to charge lynchers with federal crimes and punish officials who let them happen

when/where did the dyer bill pass

1922 in HOR

when did JWJ brothers poem come out

1922

who recorded go down moses

tuskegee institute singers (1914) and Marian Anderson (1924)

who cemented go down Moses as a progressive song

paul Robeson (1943)