Great Migration
This movement involved millions of African Americans relocating fromthe rural South to cities in the North and Midwest.
Great Migration
This famous jazz composer wrote "Take the A Train" and led an orchestrafor over 50 years.
Duke Ellington
This poet wrote "I, Too."
Langston Hughes
his artist painted colorful scenes of African American life using a folk-artstyle.
William Johnson
This civil rights leader helped found the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBois
Many African Americans moved north to escape these unfair laws.
Jim Crow Laws
This energetic performer became famous for songs like "Minnie theMoocher."
Cab Calloway
Langston Hughes often wrote about the experiences of this group ofAmericans.
African Americans
This artist often painted humorous and realistic scenes of everydayHarlem life.
Palmer Hayden
W.E.B. Du Bois believed African Americans should fi ght for this.
equal rights
This New York neighborhood became the center of African Americanculture during the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem
Known as the "Mother of the Blues," she helped popularize blues music.
Ma Rainey
This author wrote
Their Eyes Were Watching God
.
Zora Neale Hurston
This artist painted lively nightclub scenes such as "Nightlife."
Archibald Motley
This organization worked to end racial discrimination and still exists today.
NAACP
Many migrants sought these two things in northern cities.
Better jobs and opportunites (less racism)
Cab Calloway were best known for performing thisstyle of music.
Swing
Zora Neale Hurston collected and wrote about African American ______.
folklore
Harlem Renaissance artists often celebrated this through paintings,music, and literature.
African American Culture
The Harlem Renaissance encouraged African Americans to take pride intheir ______.
culture
The Great Migration helped inspire this cultural movement of art, music,and literature during the 1920s.
Harlem Renaissance
This style of music expressed African American struggles, emotions, andhope before jazz became widely popular.
Blues
Langston Hughes believed writers should celebrate this group's cultureinstead of trying to imitate others.
African Americans
Many Harlem Renaissance artists used bright colors and scenes fromeveryday life to show this.
Pride in African American culture and life
The Harlem Renaissance infl uenced American culture through thesethree areas.
music, literature,and art