What is Harlem Renaissance?
What was his famous poem during high school?
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Which author wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and 'How It Feels To Be Colored Me'?
Zora Neale Hurston
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, this activist famously said "The honor, I assure you, was Harvard's."
W.E.B. DuBois
This Harlem Renaissance singer is considered the Mother of Blues.
Ma Rainey
Why did black people migrate to Harlem?
Harlem had a surplus of apartments.
This modern-day music star (who headlined a Superbowl Halftime performance) was influenced by musicians and poets of The Harlem Renaissance.
Kendrick Lamar
In the last line of 'Harlem', what does Hughes say happens to a dream deferred?
It explodes.
Between what two great events did this movement happen?
World War I and Great Depression
Why did they make the Blues?
Because it sang a song about all the hardships and discrimination that blacks had to deal with during the 1920s through the 1930s.
This author collected the work of Harlem writers to create 'The New Negro' anthology.
Alain Locke
What was the name of the popular theater where many black singers and comedians got their start?
The Apollo
Langston Hughes' dad was white. True or false?
True.
Who are two of the most famous jazz musicians of the time?
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong