About Baldwin
At the age of 14, what did James Baldwin become?
A. Civil Rights Activist
B. Preacher
C. Essayist
B. Preacher
What has Sonny been arrested for?
Selling and using Heroin
The majority of the Harlem Renaissance took place around what decade?
1920s
Why did readers stop supporting Baldwin?
Hint: these readers found _______ offensive.
Readers stopped supporting him because they found gay matter to be offensive.
What did Sonny dream of becoming and what was his instrument?
Jazz Pianist & Piano
Harlem is located in what island in New York?
Manhattan
A theater teacher at Baldwin's middle school introduced him to the works of whom?
hint: an author and playwright
A theater teacher at his middle school introduced him to the writings of Charles Dickens and took him to see Shakespeare plays in the city.
What did Sonny along with the other musicians use jazz or the playing of music to express?
Expression of freedom; their struggles
Name one of the contributing writers in "The New Negro" (1925) mentioned in this presentation.
Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, or W.E.B. DuBois.