Harlem Renaissance
Vocabulary
Langston Hughes
Trivia
100
Harlem location.
What is "New York"?
100
Rebirth, resurrection, revival.
What is "Renaissance"?
100
Cause of Langston Hughes' death.
What is "Post-surgery complecations"?
100
Artist; painted "the migration of the negro"
Who is "Jacob Lawrence"?
200
1920's through 1940's
When is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
Segregation laws in the South
What is “Jim Crow Laws”?
200
First published poem.
What is "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
200
Major relocation of American Africans from the rural South to the industrialized North.
What is "The Great Migration"?
300
Another name for the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the "New Negro Movement"?
300
Famous club in Harlem
What is "Cotton Club"?
300
“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people- the beauty within themselves”
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300
Harlem phrase
What is “Black is beautiful”?
400
The most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is "Langston Hughes"?
400
A musical form and genre that flourished during the harlem renaissance.
What is “the blues”?
400
Influence of his literary works.
What is “helped shape American literature and politics, promoted equality, condemned racism and celebrate African American culture ”?
400
Author of a classic of black literature “ Their eyes were watching God”
Who is “Zora Neale Hurston”?
500
Outcomes of the Harlem Renaissance:
What is “increase in jobs and education, developed an African American middle class & a center of black America”?
500
Race riots in which whites attacked African Americans for competition for jobs and housing amongst whites and blacks.
What is the “Bloody/Red Summer”?
500
Purpose of writing/composing.
What is “to capture the musical qualities of the African oral tradition and fuse everyday speech with the rhythms of blues and jazz ”?
500
One president of the united states during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is "“Woodrow Wilson/ Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge/ Herbert Hoover/ Franklin D. Roosevelt. "?
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