Vocabulary
The act of moving from one place to another.
What is "migration"?
The famous theater in which many jazz performers performed.
What is the "Apollo Theater"?
This famous person sung the song "What a Wonderful Life".
Who is "Louis Armstrong"?
This was a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that took place mainly during the 1920s.
What is "the Harlem Renaissance"?
This was a popular place amongst a lot of jazz musicians in the 1920s.
What are "speakeasies"?
The act of separation based on race.
What is "segregation"?
The name of this club, named after a plant, in which many people had tons of parties and listened to jazz music.
What is the "Cotton Club"?
This famous person wrote "Dreams" that influenced future activist.
Who is "Langston Hughes"?
This became the soundtrack of the 1920's.
What is "jazz music"?
The Harlem Renaissance influenced these women.
Who are "flappers"?
The act of unfair treatment based on race.
What is "discrimination"?
The borough in New York that Harlem is located in.
What is "Manhattan"?
This famous jazz musician is known as the "Empress of the Blues".
Who is "Bessie Smith"?
This economic downturn ended the "Harlem Renaissance" and the "Roaring Twenties".
What is the "Great Depression"?
A lot the clubs that jazz musicians played in where owned by these type of people.
Who are the "mafia"?
The act of allowing people to use the same space.
Harlem is located from 155th street to this street.
What is "96th street"?
This intellectual thinker gave guidance to African Americans during this time and promoted black growth and equality.
Who is "W.E.B. Du Bois"?
These instruments became vital in the creation of the jazz sound.
The name of the race riot that occurred as a direct result of the "Great Migration".
What is the "Chicago Race Riot of 1919"?
The rebirth or revival of culture.
What is "renaissance"?
During the Great Migration, many African Americans went to New York, Chicago, and this 'motor city'?
What is "Detroit"?
The name of the more radical intellectual thinker that became a self-appointed dictator to another country.
Who is "Marcus Garvey"?
This neighborhood, that is still standing today, is a testament to the growth that happened as a direct result of the "Great Migration".
What is "Harlem"?
As African Americans left the deep south for the north during the "Great Migration", these people took over their positions in the cotton fields.
Who are the "Chinese/Asian population"?