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.
D
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