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African-American Artists
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.17

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		best-known, inner-city, discrimination, acoustic, depict, enrich, well-known, finding, jazz, inspiration, series, sculpt, heading, hymn, portray, painters
	content words:		Quilting Time, Romare Bearden, New York, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, World War I., Every Voice

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African-American Artists By Sharon Fabian

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¹     Look at that one over there! The colors are as bright as a box of markers. They're called primary colors - red, blue, and yellow. Look at the guitar player sitting in front. That's an acoustic guitar he's holding, and he looks cool in his sunglasses. The sign says this painting is called Jammin' at the Savoy.
 
²     This one has bright colors, too. And there's the guitar player again! He's sitting on the side this time, just holding his guitar. It looks like he's watching the ladies in the front. They're making a quilt. That kind of quilt is called patchwork. It has reds, blues, and yellows, too. The same artist made both of these paintings. This picture is called Quilting Time, and the artist's name is Romare Bearden.
 
³     Look in this room. This one has bright colors, too, but just little bits. Do you see all of the black and white? Those people look like silhouettes. You can't really see their faces, but you can tell where they're going. See the signs in the station; they say Chicago, New York, and St. Louis. The sign on this one says The Migration of the Negro, Panel 1.

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United States

United States

American Government         Black History and Blacks in U.S. History         Children in History         Government Careers         Hispanic Heritage         How Can I Help?

Immigration         National Parks and Monuments         Native Americans         Presidents of the United States         Women's History

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United States History

A Nation Divided (1840-1861)         A New Nation (1776-1830)         After the Civil War (1865-1870)         American Revolution         Cold War (1947-1991)         Colonial America (1492-1776)         Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)         Pearl Harbor         Spanish American War (1898)         The 1890's         The 1900's         The 1910's         The 1920's         The 1930's

The 1940's         The 1950's         The 1960's         The 1970's         The 1980's         The 1990's         The 2000's         The Civil War (1861-1865)         The Great Depression (1929-1945)         The United States Grows (1865-1900)         The War of 1812         Wild, Wild West         World War I (1914-1918)         World War II

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