Harlem Renaissance
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
What is a place in Harlem where many people, no matter what race, went to dance. People of many races danced to the sounds of jazz music well into the night.
Who is Imamu Amiri Baraka?
An African American poet thought to be the father of the Black Arts Movement.
Maya Angelou
Who is a writer, poet, scholar and American treasure.
Who is James Baldwin?
Who is a poet and writer. Often recognized for his collection of essays: "Notes of a Native Son"
Who is John Coltrane?
Who is a jazz saxophonist and composer.
What is the Lindy Hop?
What is a form of Afro-Euro-American Swing dance
What is a Cultural Nationalist?
What is a group that called for the creation of poetry, novels, visual arts, and theater to reflect pride in black history and culture.
Josephine Baker
Who is a famous African American Dancer and performer who moved to France and became a sensation.
Who wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"?
Who is Maya Angelou
Who is Duke Ellington?
Who is a composer, pianist and music icon.
What is Shuffle Along?
What is the first all black musical on Broadway.
Where is the Black Arts Repertory Theatre?
What is Harlem New York.
Nikki Giovanni
Who is an African American Poet and literary author.
Who wrote "The Bluest Eye"?
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
Who is a trumpeter who is know for his mixture of high class society, popular art, and virtuosity of jazz.
What is a Rent Party
What is a party filled with music and dance, in which guests paid a fee. These parties where often held to help pay for the monthly rent.
What year did the Black Arts Movement start?
What is 1965
Who is a national dance treasure who used dance as a form of social activism. Her company was the first African American dance company to be arts ambassadors abroad.
Who wrote the poem and play For Colored Girls...?
Who is Ntozake Shange.
What Harlem Renaissance trumpeter's nickname was "Satchmo"?
Who is Louis Armstrong
What year did Shuffle Along open?
What is 1921.
What is the Black Arts Movement's legacy in higher education?
What is African American Studies Departments
Sonia Sanchez
An African American poet and write and leading figure in the Black Arts Movement.
Who wrote "The Color Purple"?
Who is Alice Walker
What music genre came out of the Harlem Stride Style?
What is Jazz. The Harlem Stride Style was a style of playing the piano that emerged from ragtime and evolved to the beginnings of jazz.