Still even with the performances of black bands and singers, blacks were not allowed to be in the audience. ... "Henderson's arranger, Don Redman, and later Henderson himself, introduced written jazz scores that were widely admired for their effort to capture the quality of improvisation that characterized the music of smaller ensembles." ... (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, accompanied by the writings of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. ... Q...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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