What is Harlem Renaissance?
Music
Langston Hughes
Famous Figures
Misc.
100
Where is Harlem located?
New York
100
Name the music age that occurred during this time
Jazz age
100

What was his famous poem during high school?

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

100

Which author wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and 'How It Feels To Be Colored Me'?

Zora Neale Hurston

100
In 1927, this famous basketball team played their first game.
The Harlem Globetrotters
200
What was the Harlem Renaissance first called?
New Negro Movement
200
Name one of the famous speakeasies in Harlem
Cotton Club
200
'He did a lazy sway/ he did a lazy sway' is an example of this literary device.
Repetition
200

After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, this activist famously said "The honor, I assure you, was Harvard's."

W.E.B. DuBois

200

This Harlem Renaissance singer is considered the Mother of Blues.

Ma Rainey

300

Why did black people migrate to Harlem?

Harlem had a surplus of apartments.

300
Where did Jazz originate?
New Orleans
300
What University did this poet attend?
Columbia
300

This modern-day music star (who headlined a Superbowl Halftime performance) was influenced by musicians and poets of The Harlem Renaissance.

Kendrick Lamar

300

In the last line of 'Harlem', what does Hughes say happens to a dream deferred?

It explodes.

400

Between what two great events did this movement happen?

World War I and Great Depression

400

Why did they make the Blues?

Because it sang a song about all the hardships and discrimination that blacks had to deal with during the 1920s through the 1930s.

400
When did Langston Hughes become famous?
1926
400

This author collected the work of Harlem writers to create 'The New Negro' anthology.

Alain Locke

400
The major event that led to the end of the Harlem Renaissance
Great Depression
500
Harlem became the largest concentration of African Americans during this time. True or False?
True
500

What was the name of the popular theater where many black singers and comedians got their start?

The Apollo

500

Langston Hughes' dad was white. True or false?

True.

500

Who are two of the most famous jazz musicians of the time? 

Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong

500
How did the Harlem Renaissance impact American society?
It was given little notice by mainstream America, but it did help renew New York City.
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