Jazz Music
A music genre that originated in the African-American communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
What is Jazz
What were Southern segregationist policies called?
What are Jim Crow Laws
The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination?
What is Art
The state of setting someone apart from others?
What is Segregation
Establishments where Jazz was most commonly played at this time.
What are speakeasies
Two major reasons for migration.
What are to feel equal, less segregated, or job opportunities?
The main purpose of African American literature during this time.
What is putting a new point of view in the literature community or promoting social change?
The importance of the Harlem Renaissance for African American artists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals.
What is to show what Black Culture was and how white people's stereotype of it was way off?
The two continents where Jazz's style came from.
What is Africa and Europe
The main reason for African American job opportunities in the North.
What is World War 1?
He was well known for his literature themes in race, identity, and social injustice.
Who is Claud McKay?
The music of the time expressed these themes to fight for African American rights.
What is cultural and social issues?
Two music genres that Jazz evolved from.
What are slave work songs, spirituals, blues, brass band music, or ragtime?
This city was most affected by the Great Migration.
What is Detroit, Michigan?
This art movement inspired many Harlem visual artists.
What is the modernist movement?
How literature of the era fought for African American rights.
What is putting a new point of view in the literature community and promoting social change?
“The first great jazz soloist"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Estimated amount of African Americans to have left the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West.
What is over 6 million?
“The Father of African American Modernism”
Who is Aaron Douglas?
The movement for African Americans that the Harlem Renaissance "set the stage for."
What will be the Civil Rights Movement?