Let My People Go NATZ VER!!!!

When was Let My People Go made?

1935-39

Who made a portrait of Aaron Douglas in 1930?

Edwin Harleston

When/where was Douglas born?

1899, Topeka, Kansas

What university did Douglas go to?

University of Nebraska School of the Fine Arts

When did Douglas graduate from university?

1922

Douglas worked as a high school art teacher in….

Kansas City, Missouri

How long did Douglas work as an art teacher?

Two years

Charles S. Johnson was a(n) _______ for Opportunity

Editor

When did Douglas leave for New York?

End of 1925 school year

What did Reiss encourage Douglas to do?

Incorporate African influences into his work

What leaders did Reiss make portraits of?

Du Bois and Hughes

Who made ‘God’s Trombones’?

James W. Johnson

When did Douglas live in Paris?

1931-32

Douglas’s murals of black history spread from…

Pre-enslavement Africa to the future

What are notable murals by Douglas?

Fisk University (1930), New York Public Library (1934), and Texas Centennial Exposition (1936)

What job did Douglas have at Fisk?

Professor of painting

What two art styles does Douglas combine?

Art Deco and Egyptian wall painting

When did Douglas teach at Fisk?

1940-66

Let My People Go is apart of a series of ____ paintings

8

What medium did Douglas use?

Oil on Masonite

What evokes storm clouds in the painting?

Waves of purple

How many soldiers are in Let My People Go?

Four

How large is Let My People Go?

3×4 feet

What book is Let My People Go taken from?

Exodus

Who claims that Let My People Go’s message is freedom?

David C Driskell

J. Rosamond Johnson was a…

Composer

The poems in God’s Trombones combine influences from….

Sermons and spirituals

What writer used Christian themes in their NNM works?

Hurston

When did James W Johnson serve as the executive secretary of the NAACP?

1920-30

It is estimated 4000-5000 people died in lynchings from the…

1880s-1950s

What race riots mentioned all had over 40 casualties?

East St. Louis, Illinois (1917), Ocoee, Florida (1920), and Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921)

When did Ida B Wells begin her work?

1890s

What caused the formation of the NAACP?

The race riot in 1908 in Springfield, Illinois

When was the Dyer Bill introduced?

1918

When did the Dyer Bill pass in the House of Representatives?

1922

Who made the poem “Brothers” and when?

James W Johnson, 1922

“The Crucifixion” is a poem from…

God’s Trombones

What part of Douglas’s illustration of Simon of Cyrene conveys hope?

The small figure of Jesus radiating up

The story of Moses has been crucial to Black religion since..

The 19th century

When was Go Down Moses first recorded and by who?

Tuskegee Institute Singers, 1914

When did opera singer Marian Anderson record Go Down Moses?

1924

Whose recording of Go Down Moses cemented it with Black progressive causes?

Paul Robeson (1943)

When was MLK’s last speech?

April 3, 1968