Harlem Renaissance
A neighborhood north of Central Park in New York City that is famous for being a place of vibrant culture, especially in the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
A woman from Chicago who lives her life "passing" as white.
Who is Clare Kendry?
The act of pretending to be white for social/economic gain.
What is passing?
Founded in 1940, this fast food chain is famous for its burgers, breakfast, and terrifying clown mascot.
What is McDonalds?
A jazz musician from Washington, D.C. who rose to fame during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Also from Chicago, this light-skinned Black woman now lives in Harlem with her husband Brian & their 2 sons.
Who is Irene Redfield?
The policy of keeping people of different races separated in places such as schools, restaurants, housing, and transportation.
What is segregation?
The best flavor of chips.
What is 'Salt n Vinegar'?
Author of "I, too, Sign America" and "Harlem", he is the most famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
He also met the first publisher of his work while he was working as a busboy in Washington, D.C.
Irene's feelings after receiving the first letter from Clare Kendry at the end of chapter 1.
Sentence frame: What are (feeling words)?
What are humiliation, resentment, and rage?
The opposite of segregation, this term is used for when people of different races & cultures come together.
What is integration?
A chain where employees must respond "my pleasure", and you can't get food on Sundays.
What is Chik-fil-a?
The mass movement, or migration, of Black Americans from the south to cities in the north that occurred just before the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
The hotel where Irene met Clare, Gertrude, and Clare's racist husband, John.
What is The Morgan
This word means a "revival" or "rebirth".
What is renaissance?
With over 36,000 locations, this is the 2nd largest fast food chain in the world. in 2021, it was found that their tuna sandwich contained no real tuna fish.
What is Subway?
*The contents of the sandwich were described as "a mixture of various concoctions."
She was the first self-made Black millionaire in the US. Her fortune came from selling cosmetic products during the time period of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
What is uncertain, unsure, regretful, or unhappy?
The act of throwing someone out of a window.
What is defenestration?
These are national food of El Salvador and made of either corn or flour, filled with cheese, and then fried.
What are pupusas?