Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (1900 ～ 1971), an African-American musician, is one of the most important figures in the history of jazz. In the 1920s, this trumpeter, singer and bandleader began exploring the boundaries (分界) of jazz technique and style. Masters of jazz today admit their ...
This movement was a bright light of art, music, and intellectualism during the 1920s in Harlem, driven by African Americans who still had direct familial memories of slavery as well as a better quality education than their forebears. All sought a better quality of living and in the artistic...
That’s why this conductor has ___ his over four-decade career to making classical ___ more accessible to communities of African American.Dickerson is the ___ and conductor of both the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) and the South Side of Chicago Youth Orchestra (SSC...
Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans. 9 Apollo 11 3,003 votes Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil ...
Jazz began in New Orleans with marching bands and brass bands in the early 20th century, but it became a music with global influence.image source: Wikimedia CommonsEmerging from African American communities, Jazz was spread by Black musicians across American cities in the 1910s and 1920s. It ...
Finally, discrimination in housing was addressed by the Civil Rights Act of 1968. This act helped reduce discrimination in housing which had notoriously led to increased homelessness among African Americans.Challenges and Effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s Lesson Summary Register to v...
I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. Upon learning this news, Nancy and I had to decide whether as private citizens we would keep this a private matter or whether we would make this news known in a public ...
Slavery was abolished in 1865, but it was not until 1872 that the state allowed African Americans to vote and to hold public office. In 1866 Radical Republicans disenfranchised all persons who had aided the Confederacy, but after the Democrats came to power (which they held for 25 years there...
Important Dates, Events, and Milestones in Virginia HistoryOffers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in Virginia history.The geographic region now known as Virginia is inhabited for at least 3,000 years by groups of Native Americans, including the Algonquin, the ...
This day is important because voting rights were granted to African-Americans after being given citizenship by the Civil Rights Act Of 1964, while women got theirs back after passing the19th amendmenttwo years later in 1920. Sarah Grimke went out of her way to campaign for equal voting rights...