Ragtime, Jazz, and Racial Uplift

Readings:

• James Weldon Johnson, “Preface” to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), 9-22.
• Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz,” Saturday Review (July 28, 1962): 47-49, 62.

Photographs:

• “Cultural Expression” in the Digital Schomburg: Images of 19^th Century African Americans

Music: