African American Literarists And Narrators

Question 1

This Anti Slavery orator published the trilogies of his life . The first autobiography was released in 1845 . One of his sequels encompassed My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855.

Answer 1

Frederick Douglass

Question 2

This first African American Harvard Alumnus published his timely dissertation : The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the U.S. 1638-1870. As Sociologist , Historian and Pan Africanist , he churned out numerous publications addressing about race relation.He coined the metaphorical phrases : the Double Consciousness in his seminal book: The Souls of Black Folk ( 1903 ). Other collection comprised of Black Reconstruction and the Negroes: a look at African civilization .

Answer 2

W.E.B.DuBois

Question 3

And Then We Heard Thunder is a novel set in WWII. It examined the extant reality of racial sequestration and race relations in the Military services. It was written by this WWII veteran who fought in the Pacific theatre of war.

Answer 3

John Oliver Killen

Question 4

This Poet Laureate was a son of ex-slaves with zeal and passion for rhaphsodic , dialectical , and anaphoric poetry. He published anthologized collections : Oaks and Ivory ; Majors and Minors ; and the Lyrics of Lowly Life . One of his poem , We Wear the Mask , explore the camouflaged reality of dissimulation.

Answer 4

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 5

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathe in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans , and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient , dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
This African American Literarist published this classical , acclaimed , and anaphoric poem during the Harlem Renaissance in 1921.

Answer 5

Langston Hughes ( 1902- 1967)

Question 6

Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun ?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Who authored this enticing poetry during the Harlem Renaissance ?

Answer 6

Langston Hughes ( 1902-1967)