... was a folklorist as well. In this was her strength. Performing arts Diversity and experimentation also flourished in the performing arts. Musicians were creating and refining jazz, a mixture of ragtime, blues and African folk songs. The Jazz Age dawned in 1919 with the instrumentation of bandleader Louis Armstrong and the orchestration of composer Duke Ellington. For black entertainers the 1920s were boom times ... , and this made the jazz that the New Orleans blacks were bringing north more acceptable. World War I, which ran from 1914 to 1918, had cost the lives of millions of young men...

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... racial progress for African Americans, but progress that will ultimately begin to disrupt and unravel the institutional, political and cultural bases of the liberal consensus by the mid-1960s. SHORT TIMELINE OF THE SHORT CIVIL RIGHTS ERA To Secure These Rights (1947): Truman Administration commits the Democratic Party to a strong civil rights platform based upon fair housing, desegregation of the armed ... ...

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