'Judge Dan' dies; once sentenced a man to 150 years for beating boy to death. Judge Daniel Tillman. Judge Daniel Tillman was an imposing figure in his courtroom in St. Louis Circuit Court, particularly for those who had done wrong. âJudge Dan,â as some called him, stood 6 feet, 4 inches and weighed 250 pounds. He once sent a man to prison for 150 years for beating to death a 2-year-old boy he was trying to potty-train. Judge Tillman worked hard to come up with what he considered to be just the right sentence. He wanted justice â for the defendant and the victim.
Harlem would see new black writers in the years to come. Musicians, poets, and artists would continue to make their home there, but it never again served as the focal point of a creative movement with the national and international impact of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson did not personally witness the 1935 Riot.
The Renaissance patrons wanted art that showed joy in human   beauty and lifeâs pleasures. Renaissance art is more lifelike than   in the art of the â¦ Middle Ages. Renaissance artists studied perspective,   or the differences in the way things look when they are close to something   or far away.The artists painted in a way that showed these differences.enaissance is an endeavour to return to the ideas, values and art of the Greek and Roman antique. Art is the expression of a mind, and minds change as we discover the world and have different feelings about it.