Artists
An African American mural painter born in Nashville, Tennessee.
Who is Aaron Douglas?
A period of time during the 1920s that set stage for the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The instrument Louis Armstrong was most famous for playing.
What is the trumpet?
A writer who wrote many poems, and books of poems such as ”I, Too.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
A place in New York City that was the center of African American culture.
Where is Harlem?
Another name for the 1920s..
The Jazz Age.
A female painter who had her first exhibition at 17, and lived in Paris during the 30s and 40s.
Who is Lois Mailou Jones?
He founded the NAACP, and did a lot of Ciivil Rights work during the 1920s.
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
Writer of the song, “It Don’t Mean a Thing.”
Who is Duke Ellington?
An African American artist who used an art style called Panel 28.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
A racist, anti African American group that hit a peak in the 1920s.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A singer during the Harlem Renaissance nicknamed Lady Day.
Who was Billie Holiday?
A sculpture who, in the 1920s, made a bust of W.E.B DuBois.
Who is Augusta Savage?
A theory that cultures should keep their beliefs and traditions, but assimilate a little.
What is Cultural Pluralism?
The place where elements of Jazz originated.
Where is West Africa?