YA LIKE JAZZ?

WRITERS

CLAUDE MCKAY

• Writer
• Wrote about the struggle of being African American

LANGSTON HUGHES

• Writer
• Wrote about life as a working class African American

MUSICAL JAZZ

• Louis Armstrong
• “Duke” Ellington

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

DUKE ELLINGTON

SOURCE:

• Danzer, Gerald. The Americans. Boston, Massachusetts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. Aug 10th, 2012.

IMAGE URLS

• https://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/prophet-harlem https://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912 https://www.biography.com/people/duke-ellington-9286338