Harlem Renaissance
When the Harlem Renaissance took place
What is the 1920s and 1930s?
Name 3 things/places that were separated in the south based on race.
The name of the play we are about to read.
What is "Raisin in the Sun"
What is the topic of this essay?
How many people in the US were out of work in the 1930s
What is 25 percent?
What is Harlem, New York City?
The phrase of "separate but equal"
The legal excuse lawmakers used for why they separated places by race. They claimed it wasn't discrimination if it was separate but equal.
The author of the play we are about to read
Who is Lorraine Hansberry
Where the author thinks the next great Black Artist will come from
What is "the black people who are not afraid of the fact they are black, instead of the educated people who want to be white"?
The name we give to the period of poverty in the 1930s
What is the Great Depression?
The music genre that was created during the Harlem Renaissance
The name of the black boy who was lynched, whose death forced white people to pay attention to the horrors of lynching.
Who was Emmett Till?
The "Cast of Characters"
A list of all the characters in a play, put at the beginning.
Why Hughes thinks educated black people are critical of black artists
What is "they want to be white"
What was happening in Germany in the 1930s
What is the rise of the Nazis
Some of the people or fashion items involved in the Harlem Renaissance (hint: one person is the author of our essay from Tuesday)
Who are Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Dubois, Billie Holliday, Fats Waller, Leopard skin coats, feather boas, Louis Armstrong
Some ways White Southerners avoided giving black people voting rights
What is "the grandfather rule" or "the ability to write your name"?
The definition of "stage directions"
Words put in italics that show how the characters should be moving while talking
The response Hughes gets from black people when he writes poems about blackness
What is "Why do you always write about black people"?
The word that was created by Raphael Lemke to describe an attempt to kill a whole people group.
What is Genocide?
The name of the movement when many people moved from the South to places like Chicago or Harlem.
What is the Great Migration?
The Jim Crow of the north
How a play is divided instead of by chapters
What are Act 1, Act 2, Act 3?
What Hughes believes should be the goal for black artists.
What is "We should express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."
Where the Nazis got the ideas for how to make the dehumanizing Anti Jewish Laws