id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_44kggqrnunagpjmp7qn7hdlh5e Amy Kirschke The Burden of Black Womanhood: Aaron Douglas and the "Apogée of Beauty" 2010 21 .pdf application/pdf 4940 391 74 resolve, and beauty of black women, which Aaron Douglas, as a visual artist, Du Bois noted the beauty of African American women. Aaron Douglas held black women in the same high regard as Du Bois. Aaron Douglas was an educator, as were Alta Sawyer and W.E.B. Du Bois. reveal Douglas's unique view of women and their role in African American No other artist of the period creating such murals on African American life, created such an expressive figure, an Douglas never forgot his commitment to express all forms of beauty, including that of an African woman. Douglas nevertheless created some of his more interesting images of women during this time period, as did other artists of the magazine. Figure 9: Aaron Douglas (American, 1899-1979), Negro in America, 1929-1930. Figure 12: Aaron Douglas (American, 1899-1979), Slave Left Behind 1929Figure 14: Aaron Douglas (American, 1899-1979), The Burden of Black Womanhood, The Crisis cover, September 1927. ./cache/work_44kggqrnunagpjmp7qn7hdlh5e.pdf ./txt/work_44kggqrnunagpjmp7qn7hdlh5e.txt