James Weldon Johnson: The Book Of American Negro Poetry
Janice Warriner
November 29, 2012
Composition 1030 Nowak
James Weldon Johnson
From the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1921)
During the 1920’s, the country was still segregated, and black people were denied the right to vote, attend schools where they would be intermixing with white people, and often lived without the same standard of living embraced by white people. They often did not have electricity, their clothes were in poor condition and books were often discarded books from the white schools. Black males were automatically suspects in crimes, and often did not have a fair trial.
White people wanted order and perfection. During the film, Birth of a Nation :The Civil War Films of DW Griffith The black, slave
November 29, 2012
Composition 1030 Nowak
James Weldon Johnson
From the preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1921)
During the 1920’s, the country was still segregated, and black people were denied the right to vote, attend schools where they would be intermixing with white people, and often lived without the same standard of living embraced by white people. They often did not have electricity, their clothes were in poor condition and books were often discarded books from the white schools. Black males were automatically suspects in crimes, and often did not have a fair trial.
White people wanted order and perfection. During the film, Birth of a Nation :The Civil War Films of DW Griffith The black, slave