October, 12 1920
TIME 10 Questions: Billie Holiday
Flappers In or Out
Harlem Renaissance
Langston hughes and his exciting history
Sports on William Tate
Table Of Contents 3. Letter from the editor 5-6. Letters to the editor 7. World in the 1920s 8. Entertainment: Harlem Renaissance 10. Economy 12. 10 Question for Billie Holiday 14. Langston hughes 15. Politics *17. Society* 18. Sports Today 19. Bibliography 20. Citation
Letter From the Editor Welcome to this issue of our magazine. This month’s issue is about the Harlem Renaissance, and the people that were part of it. We have plenyt to enjoy and something for everyone in here, whether you enjoy whether you're interested in politics, sports, economy, the world and more. Our feature article about the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance is an important part of the 1920’s and will be remembered for many years to come. The staff has worked hard to bring this to you guys to enjoy.
We are In a very prosperous time for many, with new freedoms with few downfalls, and I hope our magizane reflects this prosperous time period that we are experiencing.
We are going to talk about the Harlem Renaissance as in the art they did, the sports they did, the great migrations, how the economy has affected this time period. This is what our story will be about I hope you enjoy.
We are in a very prosperous time for many, with new freedoms with few downfalls, and I hope our magizane reflects this progressive time period that we are experiencing. Sincerely, editors, Alaa Ali Lionel Cauley
Letters to the Editor Dear Editor,
Dear Editor
Evolution is against God and my religion. I will not allow my kids to attend a school that teaches against our beliefs as a Christian. To be a christian the bible stresses five strong points, true belief in Jesus as God, Christ is born of a virgin, Christ died for our sins, Christ resurrected the third day, and the authenticity of all miracles described in the bible. Darwin’s theory challenges all five points. Teaching evolution to our society and to our children will only confuse and corrupt their minds believing in evolution would mean to not believe in God and to turn away from Christianity, which means all rules and structure will no longer hold and will create a lawless world. Our children’s behaviors will be based on if adults are watching. There's also the question that if we evolved from an ape or later species then why are they still living to this day wouldn't they be extinct or died out like our other “ancestors”. John Scopes created confusion and lies about the creation of man and I think that he should not teach again and evolution should not be in schools I want my children to learn the truth and live in a good world. please take my views into consideration when publishing. Sincerely, Kortnilyn Williams
I am going to tell you about how I feel about religion versus science. I feel that this was wrong for our people.I am going to tell you why this is and was wrong. This has also changed the way of many beliefs. I am going to tell you why I strongly agree with you editor. I believe that our creation was by religion and not by the laws of of science. I also feel that John T. Scopes was wrong for trying to teach things such as a creation through adaptations of a monkey. Just as William Jennings found this offended so did I cause I feel that we have lost many different religious beliefs through the creations of God.
Sincerely, Lionel Cauley
Dear Editor, Your article really spoke to me, and was the deciding factor in my moving to the city. Country life is dull and boring and the city has a much better quality of life. I dream of all the things I could buy with the new increased wages and the low price of goods. I simply can’t wait to have these amazing central heating, electricity, vacuum cleaners and other amazing modern tools from the city. My parents say that people in the city have lost all their morals, but they’re just having a good time, and also I can finally work and be independent, with all the freedom I could never dream of having in the city. Don’t tell my parents but I would love to be a flapper, and “dud up” and go to parties. Thank you so much for your article. Sincerely, Alaa Ali
Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I agree with the rules and regulations that you have informed society about. prohibition is something we need as a whole and the government should inform drinkers and supporters of alcohol about the pros and cons it with stands. Personally I have witnessed overuse of alcohol causing problems in a average person’s daily life. Therefore I do not condone with supporters of the toxic liquid itself. Alcohol is harmful to the human brain and a potential threat to children, therefore i do not support alcohol or supporters of it. Thank you , Lexi Williams
the youth culture is rising up and it's looking really good woman are getting more independent and becoming flappers they are smoking in public and drinking too they wear short skirts and cut heir hair short to. some flappers say they don't need a man and they do everything for themselves. alot of young woman started to work full jobs and suport them self. sincerly ronnie williams
WORLD in the 1920’s The 1920’s was a variety of social issues amidst a rapidly changing world. Conflicts grew concerning what was considered acceptable and respectable or what was proscribed and made illegal. The conflict quickly increased between liberal urban areas against the conservative rural areas.
During the 1920’s the population in cities grew rapidly. All crime and political corruption was acceptable. Urban areas had increasingly liberal views of alcohol,drugs,sex, and homosexuality. The first openly gay relationship was between william haines and jimmy shields. Lots of individuals were surprised and responded by opposing their behavior. Women,minorities, and the educated were entitled to equality more in the urban areas. In the 1920’s the 18 amendment was passed but wasn't taken seriously. Due to the lack of funding and barely any supporters the law was deemed ridiculous. Congressmen became drunk from parties after passing the 18th amendment.Eventually this lack of respect and responsibility spread to different cultures. Conservatives of the United States said that the lack of order asterning from the rampant use of toxic fluids such as alcohol.
Harlem Renaissance The 1920’s is a new chapter in African American culture. It was a time of vitality, creativity and dreams for the future. The Harlem Renaissance demolished views about the artistic limits of black creativity. From the mid 1910s to the mid 1920s african americans started what was known as the great migration. it brought thousands of blacks to New york. African americans migrated to escape discrimination and to find better job and career opportunities leaving behind small town life and small town thinking,harlem was now filled with young people of color, singing and dancing painting and writing and acting. By 1920s ⅔ of manhattans black population native born and West Indian lived in Harlem within this community the Harlem Renaissance was created young and older african americans living off of there new found talents inspiring the world, making history, and benefiting from the patronage of both black and white audiences. African american artists were frozen out of any art opportunities in the U.S. Whites didn’t show any attention to African Americans, but there were very few that made it, such as Meta Fuller, Augusta savage, Palmer hayden, William Johnson.
Langston hughes wrote poetry, plays, and fiction about african americans and their struggle for equality. composed one of his best known pieces of poetry in New York at the age of 17. Singer-song writer billie holiday was an american jazz musician she was one of the most influential jazz singers of the 1920s. Holiday had her break with Artie Shaw, She was the first African American vocalist to work with a white man. William Johnson was an academic painter who liked to do childlike art. He won an Harmon gold medal but was later arrested. Augusta spent her nights doing powerful arts, she also did small clay african american portraits. Palmer C. Hayden was the first winner at the Harmon Foundation in 1926. He did original african american art. This was mainly on black life, legends, and folktales. This was art in the Harlem Renaissance.
The economy is booming these days, and many people are reaping the benefits. People are enjoying higher qualities of life, new technology, and higher wages. This decade shows progress and prosperity for The United States of America.
Economy By Alaa Ali
Business has now become a national obsession. Everyone is spending avidly and the economy is spiraling upwards at a record rate. Production is up thanks to new techniques of mass production, competition is very stiff and corporate profits are up. In 1923 U.S Steel was operating so efficiently that it was able to reduce its workday from 12 to 8 hours. Income is up for most lines of endeavor. Even the industrial workers, whose failed strikes in the previous decade enjoyed a higher standard of income. Savings and life insurance have doubled, and prosperity seems to have no ceiling. Nowadays, you can buy stuff using easy little payments called credit. As the automators say, “Pay as you ride and enjoy as you pay.” Although traditionalists, who count living within one’s means as a virtue, have bad predictions about credit, it has undoubtedly opened up broad new vistas for many. Prices on Credit Piano $445- $15 down, 12/month Phonograph $43.5- $5 down, 5/month Fridge $87.50- $5 down, 10/month Bedroom Suite $228- $15 down, $15/month
We are now in the golden age of advertising. A writer for the Kansas City Journal Post had the right idea when he asserted, “Advertising and mass production are the twin cylinders that keep the motor of modern business in motion.” These two factors have contributed to the economic boom. “We have had booms and collapses in the past. But now we have no boom. Our progress is rapid-but sure.”, this remark was made by Samuel Crowther in Colliers. Business is providing everyone with a steadily increasing share of ever expanding prosperity. To many, it seems almost unpatriotic to exercise restrain in buying, and heretical to believe economist Roger Babson when he warned, “Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific.”
I mustache you a question...
10 questions for lady day What is your birth name?
-holiday tells all
When i was born i was named eleanora fagan gough
What made you decide “Billie Holiday”? “It was an apreciation to my favorite film star billie loveand my father clarence holiday”
Did you grow up in a musical family? ”not really my father was a jazz musician but thats about all”
Did you have a good childhood? “I grew up in poverty and i was not like other girls playing with dolls and dressing up when i was 6 i had my first job.
did you finish school? “At 12 was under witness protection for a rape case me being the victum i dropped out of school in 5th grade and got a job running errands in a brothel”
What are some of your greatest moments? “Performing in carnegie hall, biengin a broad way musical, and apearing on the tonight show were preety big and exciting things for me especially coming from poverty”
“If im going to sing like someone else then i dont need to sing at all” -Billie holiday
Would you say you have fallen in love before? Holiday says she has been married multiple times “i married james monroe but that was a brief relationship that led to divorce, and now im happily married to louis mckay but love is like a faucet it turns off and on”
Have you ever been in trouble with the law? she says “i was arrested once in 1947 for drug use and ive been having trouble with substance abuse but im getting better now”.
Is it true that you dont know how to read music? “i can not read music but that did not stop me at all”. holiday says this with
What do you think was your best work through out your career? through out my career i am told i have had three phases and the greatest of these was the dramatic serious singer in me when my best work was produced such as God bless the child, i cover the water front, i got the right to sing the blues, and am i blue. these songs created with profound artistery are considerd to be my best work to most.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902,
Hughes graduated from high school in
in Joplin, Missouri. His
1920 and spent the following year in
parents, James Hughes and Carrie Langston, separated soon
Mexico with his father. Around this time, Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The
after his birth, and his father moved to Mexico. While Hughes’s
Crisis magazine and was highly praised. In 1921 Hughes returned to
mother moved around during his
the United States and enrolled at
youth, Hughes was raised
Columbia University where he studied
primarily by his maternal
briefly, and during which time he
grandmother, Mary, until she
quickly became a part of Harlem's
died in his early teens. From
burgeoning cultural movement, what is
that point, he went to live
commonly known as the Harlem
with his mother, and they moved
Renaissance. But Hughes dropped out of
to several cities before
Columbia in 1922 and worked various
eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. It was during
odd jobs around New York for the following year, before signing on as a steward on a freighter that took him
this time that Hughes first began to write poetry, and that
to Africa and Spain. He left the ship in 1924 and lived for a brief time in
one of his teachers first
Paris, where he continued to develop
introduced him to the poetry of
and publish his poetry.
Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman, both whom Hughes would later cite as primary influences. Hughes was also a regular contributor to his school's literary magazine, and frequently submitted to other poetry magazines, although they would ultimately reject him.
Politics the harding times before it became coolidge by Lionel Cauley What the presidential leaders must have certain possessions. that need sufficient dynamism to stir the nation. the leader needs political talent to mold the alliances. last but not least intellectual capacity to grasp what actions might be effective in the prevailing mood of times. Warren Harding was a man running for president he had great leadership from the countries point of view. Warren was humble, he had no effort for disguises, he was just like plain men around the country americans saw him as the banla american dream. Warren Harding gave up his is presidential services after the teapot scam. one of his friends resigned their leaderships so warren harding resigned his also.because he felt like he was not a good and irresponsible president. also after the confusion of the country of what was going on warren later died of an heart attack over night.
lthis is where president coolidge came from being vice president to the united states president. Calvin Coolidge was just like Warren Harding to the country, a good man. the country called him silent calvin because he spoke infrequently at his speeches. calvin also believes that the best government is the last government. this brung american industries closer to the stock market cash. Calvin Coolidge became president after the following death of Warren Harding.
Society article here
-marshaun
sports today
the grate william tatem tilden has retired today we interviewed him to see what it felt like to retire william said “it feels great to retire and it feels like the right time i was the number one world tennis player now it's time to give my spot up�. today the big bambino fell sick from intestinal abscess the yankees are in a crisis not knowing what to do without him
the game of basketball a small but growing part of professional sports. they have made a league called abl or american basketball league. a group of men from the nfl started it. one of the first teams made was the celtics a basketball team made up of boys from a irish neighborhood.
Bibliography
Lionel Cauley Works Cited
"African American Art: Great Depression and World War II Years." African American Art: Great Depression and World War II Years. Richard J. Powell, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. "'Silent Cal'" 'Silent Cal' Peter Clements, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. "Warren Harding." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
CITATION
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/04/07/billie-holiday-birthanniversary-100/25357845/ -kortnilyn: 10 quesations http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration -kortnilyn: great migration