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My Mini Museum

My Mini Museum . By: Daynelynne Dizon. Edward Kennedy Ellington . Ellington was born on April 29, 1899. His nickname was “Duke” because he was a flashy dresser. During the 20s, Ellington performed in many speakeasies. Ellington's music impressed audiences all over the world .

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My Mini Museum

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  1. My Mini Museum By: DaynelynneDizon

  2. Edward Kennedy Ellington • Ellington was born on April 29, 1899. • His nickname was “Duke” because he was a flashy dresser. • During the 20s, Ellington performed in many speakeasies. • Ellington's music impressed audiences all over the world. • In the 1940, he recorded a song called “Harlem Air Craft”. • Ellington died on May 24, 1974.

  3. Louis Armstrong • Armstrong was born on August 4,1901. • He was an African-American Jazz trumpeter and singer. • He developed a style called scat singing. • Armstrong performed on Broadway, acted in movies, recorded music, and gained international fame. • Armstrong quoted “If you have to ask , man, you’ll never know.” • Armstrong died on July 6, 1971.

  4. Billie Holiday • Holiday was born on April 7,1915. • She was an African-American Jazz singer and songwriter. • Billie was known for her memorable and soulful performances. • She recorded the first popular radio song about racism of her time called "Strange Fruit”. • In early 1959, she found out that she had cirrhosis of the liver. • Holiday died on July 17, 1959.

  5. Bessie Smith • Smith was born on April 15, 1894. • She was an African-American Blues singer. • She was known as “The Empress of the Blues”. • Smith influenced several generations of Blues, Jazz, and Rock musicians and was the highest-paid African-American singer of her time. • She sung songs like “Down Hearted Blues” and “Back Water Blues” with James P. Johnson. • Smith died on September 26,1937.

  6. Ella Fitzgerald • Fitzgerald was born on April 25,1917. • She was an African-American Jazz and song vocalist. • Fitzgerald recorded songs with Louis Armstrong. • She could scat sing and hit high notes. • Fitzgerald had both of her legs amputated in 1993. • Fitzgerald died on June 15,1996.

  7. Langston Hughes • Hughes was born on February 1,1902. • He was an African- American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. • He added a musical sound to the verses of his poems. • His subject matter and content for his poems reflected social issues. • Hughes died on May 22, 1967.

  8. Jacob Lawrence • Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917. • He was an African- American painter. • Lawrence concentrated on representing the history and struggles of African Americans. • Lawrence created paintings about everything he saw. • Lawrence died on June 9, 2000.

  9. Mamie Smith • Smith was born on May 26,1883. • She was an African- American singer, dancer, pianist, and actress. • She entered Blues history by being the first African American artist to make vocal Blues recordings. • Smith died on September 16,1946.

  10. Lewis Grandison Alexander • Alexander was born on July 4, 1900. • He was an African- American poet, actor, playwright, and costume designer. • He wrote many poems like “Little Cinderella”. • He directed all the plays while attending Howard University. • Alexander died on July 4, 1945.

  11. Arna Bontemps • Bontemps was born on October 13,1902. • He was an African- American poet of the Harlem Renaissance. • He began writing while he was a student at Pacific Union College. • Bontemps’s poems enriched and preserved the African-American heritage. • He died on June 4,1973.

  12. Countee Cullen • Cullen was born on May 30,1903. • He was an American poet who was popular during the Harlem Renaissance. • Cullen was a leading figure with Langston Hughes. • He wrote poems like“ I Have a Rendezvous With Life”. • Cullen died on January 9,1946.

  13. Alice Dunbar Nelson • Nelson was born on July 19,1875. • Nelson was an African- American poet, journalist, and political activist. • During the Harlem Renaissance, she published numerous stories and essays. • She helped establish The Industrial School for Colored Girls in Delaware and organized for anti-lynching reforms. • Nelson died on September 18,1935.

  14. Jessie RedmonFauset • Fauset was born on April 27,1882. • She was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, and novelistwho influenced the Harlem Renaissance. • Fauset was most known for being the editor of the NAACP magazine, Crisis. • Fausetdied on April 30, 1961.

  15. Angelina Weld Grimké • Grimké was born on February 27,1880. • She is a mixed American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet. • She wrote poems about love, racial injustice, African-American pride, nature, and universal themes of life and death. • She was one of the first mixed American women to have a play performed. • Grimkédied on June 10, 1958

  16. Georgia Douglas Johnson • Johnson was born on September 10,1880. • She was an African-American poet. • She published her first poems in 1916 in the NAACP's magazine, Crisis. • She also published her first book of poetry in 1918, “The Heart of a Woman”, focusing on the experience of a woman. • Johnson died on May 14, 1966.

  17. Famous Bands, Art, and Poetry

  18. Famous Bands, Art and Poetry

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