These new forms of music was made due to the gospels and spirituals that singers were performing in the 1920's
What is Jazz and Blues?
100
is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke.
What is the New Negro?
100
greatest female writer of her time.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
100
Went against W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is Booker T. Washington
100
"The Crisis" the most widely read black journal in America was edited by ______.
what is Jessie Fauset?
200
Crowned "Empress of the Blues" in the 20's.
What is Bessie Smith?
200
novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston
What is Their Eyes are watching God?
200
wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals.
Who is Wallace Thurman?
200
staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Who is Marcus Garvey?
200
Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues.
Who is Bessie Smith?
300
Performed on stage by artist such as Marian Anderson, Roland Hayes, and Pual Robeson; best known form of music created by black Americans.
What is Negro Spirituals?
300
Cane, published in 1923, is considered by many to be his most significant Work during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Jean Toomer?
300
Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Alain Locke?
300
is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
300
she was one of the first African-American women to have a play publicly performed.
Who is Angelina Weld Grimke?
400
With their highly acrobatic technique ("flash dancing"), high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day.
Who is the Nicholas Brothers?
400
His first published work, "City of Refuge", appeared in the Atlantic Monthly of February 1925.
Who is Rudolph Fisher?
400
was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.
What is the Urban League?
400
two novels written by Nella Larsen were published one year apart, 1928 and 1929.
What is Quicksand and Passing?
500
was a jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.
Who is Cab Calloway?
500
She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.
Who is Dorothy West?
500
known as the "Queen of Happiness".
Who is Florence Mills?
500
Howard University accepted to their college through orgizations such as the Urban League and the NAACP.
What is Black intellectuals?
500
she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.