People
The author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Who is Langston Hughes?
The most popular form of music found in clubs during the Harlem Renaissance
The first Black author to support himself completely through his writing.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The city Harlem is in.
The decade that the Harlem Renaissance took place in
What is the 1920s?
The U.S. president during the civil war who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A type of party where people would gather at an apartment and pay a small fee to eat delicious food and mingle with neighbors to help pay a person's rent
What is a rent party?
The first river mentioned in Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
The river to the east of Harlem
What is the Harlem river?
The phenomenon where thousands of Black Americans left their lives in the South to move to cities in the North.
What is the Great Migration?
The illegal gambling "Bolito" king of Harlem.
Who is Casper Holstein?
The name that Black artists and writers gave to themselves to mark a new era of Black art.
The New Negro Movement
The author of "The Making of Butterflies" and other Black American folk tales.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The NYC borough that Harlem is in.
What is Manhattan?
An American War fought over the right to own slaves.
What is the Civil War
The most famous saxophone player from the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
A type of loose dress, often with fringe or beads, popular during the Jazz era.
What is a flapper dress?
The study of people and culture through individuals
What is ethnography?
What is (Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Washington, D.C.)?
What is Jim Crow?
Harlem's "Empress of the Blues"
Bessie Smith
An earlier genre of music that contributed to the creation of Jazz.
A collection of stories, poems and essays by prominent authors from the Harlem Renaissance published by Alain Locke.
What is the New Negro?
The continent where the "Harlem Hellfighters," a famous group of black soldiers, fought in WWI.
The era after the civil war where the South was being rebuilt with a hope of more opportunities for Black people.
What is reconstruction?