Events Leading Up
This was a major reason why many African Americans moved to northern cities during the Great Migration.
What is a lack of job opportunities?
These types of publications allowed Black art to be shared.
What are magazines and newspapers?
This is the writer known as a poet of the people who also wrote "I Dream a World".
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is the type of music that influenced Hughes' poetry.
What is jazz?
This is the the type of figurative language used in "Where wretchedness will hang its head."
What is personification?
During this time period, the government tried to help formerly enslaved people and rebuild the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This African American musician is known for getting his start in New Orleans, coming to Harlem to play, and performing "What a Wonderful World".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This is the author known for Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This is the prestigious school in New York that Hughes attended for a short time.
What is Columbia University?
This is the meaning of "Where greed no longer saps the soul."
What is greed will not drain or take away people's joy?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These nightclubs brought Black and White crowds out to enjoy dancing and music.
What are The Savoy and The Cotton Club?
These are different forms that literature of the Harlem Renaissance was displayed through.
What are poems, plays, short stories, fiction, and nonfiction?
These are some of the hardships of Hughes' upbringing.
What are parents' divorce, death of grandmother, constantly moving, and absent father?
This is the tone of the poem.
What is hopeful and optimistic?
During this movement, African Americans fled economic hardships and racial segregation in the South to find better opportunities in the North and West.
What is the Great Migration?
These genres of music originated in New Orleans and made their way to the Harlem nightlife.
What is Jazz and Blues?
These are themes discussed in literature of this time period.
What are social injustices, separation between dark-skinned and light-skinned African Americans, and religious faith relating to race?
This is the main theme in Hughes' poems.
What are cultural injustices?
This is the object Hughes compares joy to, showing that they are both valuable and difficult to obtain.
What is a pearl?
Although it was declared unconstitutional in 1883, this law was a major attempt to secure civil rights for African Americans after Reconstruction.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
This man was known as the father of Black American art.
Who is Aaron Douglas?
This well-known writer wrote on the experiences of being a mixed-race man in the early 20th century.
Who is Jean Toomer?
This is the university that Hughes graduated from.
What is Lincoln University?
This is the theme of the poem.
What is having hope that a better world and better life for all can be achieved?