![]() ![]() One was to use history to prove to white America that blacks had played important roles in the creation of America and thereby deserve to be treated equally as citizens. Woodson hoped to build upon this creativity and further stimulate interest through Negro History Week. And artists like Aaron Douglass, Richmond Barthé, and Lois Jones created images that celebrated blackness and provided more positive images of the African American experience. ![]() The 1920s saw the rise in interest in African American culture that was represented by the Harlem Renaissance where writers like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Claude McKay-wrote about the joys and sorrows of blackness, and musicians like Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Lunceford captured the new rhythms of the cities created in part by the thousands of southern blacks who migrated to urban centers like Chicago. It is important to realize that Negro History Week was not born in a vacuum. ![]() Woodson chose the second week of February in order to celebrate the birthday of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This impatience led Woodson to create Negro History Week in 1926, to ensure that school children be exposed to black history. ![]()
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