-How Would Members of the Urban Black Middle Class of the 1920s

question 43

Multiple Choice

-How would members of the urban black middle class of the 1920s most likely have reacted to Aaron Douglas's drawing that accompanied James Weldon Johnson's poem "The Prodigal Son"?

• A) They would have encouraged additional black men from the South to migrate to northern cities.
• B) They would have taken pride in the development of an original American musical style with African roots.
• C) They would have joyfully seen this image as an expression of the times that included increased African American dignity.
• D) They would have disapproved of the temptations of jazz and the other illustrated vices that confronted the young man in the image.

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