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Marcus Garvey was an advocate of the Black Nationalism and Pan- African and Pan-Africanist movements. Marcus represents the 1920’s by trying to embrace the Black community. Marcus is considered as leading the largest organized mass movement in Black history.
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Duke Ellington was a famous composer, pianist, and bandleader in the 1920s. He formed a small band in 1923 and they played in speakeasies and clubs all over New York. He started playing in the Cotton Club which was one of Harlems most famous night spots. He also created his own sound which we still hear today. It was a blend of improvisation and orchestration, it appeared in some compositions like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady”.
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Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans and he first started playing music in a home for troubled kids. He was known for his perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, he played a combination of percussion and soaring. When he was twenty one he joined King Oliver and his jazz band in Chicago. They brought out people and musicians no matter what race they were. After New York he returned to Chicago to create record after record. His freedom, wit, and discipline gave his music a new position for the future. His influence is in all over America and in jazz today, every school of jazz still looks at how he interpreted the basics of idioms.
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Langston Hughes was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He studied engineering at Columbia University but then he dropped out so he could pursue poetry. He published his first poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, in 1921 at the age of 19. He became known as “Poet Laureate of Harlem” and wrote over eight hundred and fifty poems in his lifetime.