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Marcus Garvey founded the _____
Universal Negro Improvement Association.
100
This musician had big hits including “What a Little Moonlight can do” and “Miss Brown to You.”
Billie Holiday(Lady Day)
100
This person went to Harlem and enrolled in Columbia University and managed to be successful there, but he spent the majority of his time seeing Broadway shows. In 1922, he dropped out of Columbia and began to spend every waking moment in Harlem supporting himself on writing.
Langston Hughes
100
A dancer, singer, and comedian. This person was the first African American performer to break free of racial offense. he/she is known as “Black Venus”/“Black Pearl”
Josephine Baker
200
Where did the Harlem Renaissance originate?
Harlem borough of Manhattan, New York City.
200
He worked as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums and at the age of 17 he moved to New York City and began leading his own band in Harlem.
Chick Webb
200
The Eyes Were Watching God, and Tell My Horse are some of famous works from this person.
Zora Neale Hurston
200
Famous tap-dancer that became famous with a role in Blackbirds of 1928, and all- black musical on Boradway. this person was known for his/her elegant style and grace with white and black audiences
Billy "Bonjangles" Robinson
300
What is another name for The Harlem Renaissance?
New Negro Movement
300
This musician was invited in 1922 to move to Chicago, to play the second cornet in a Creole Jazz Band.
Louis Armstrong
300
He became editor of The Messenger, a socialist journal aimed at blacks
Wallace Thurman
300
Why is Josephine Baker known as “Black Venus”, “Black Pearl” and Creole Goddess
She is known as “Black Venus”, “Black Pearl” and Creole Goddess because of her audiences and beauty.
400
The most famous music that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance is____ . This music can be seen in the Cotton Club. It is still highly appreciated to this present day.
Jazz
400
Drumming legend Buddy Rich cited Chick Webb’s technique and performances as heavily influential on his own drumming and referred to Webb as ________
“the daddy of them all”
400
What poem by Langston Hughes is this from? I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land.
Democracy
400
Billy Robinson preformed at the famous Cotton Club. Today he is most famous for dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930's. Audiences enjoyed Billy "Bonjangles" Robinson's style which included a frenetic manner of the ______ (dance)
The Jitterbug
500
During World War I (1914-18), a mass movement called the _________, an exodus of 6 million blacks from the South to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit (1916-70), began bringing African-Americans by the tens of thousands from the rural South to Northern cities.
The Great Migration
500
In 1929, he made his first appearance on the Broadway stage. In his recording of Ain't Misbehavin, he used a pop song, however, interpreted it through jazz.
Louis Armstrong
500
Thurman and other members of the “_______” (ironic name Thurman used for young African American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance)
Niggerati
500
In the start of Josephine Baker's career she toured the United States with two comic groups The Jones Family Band and The Dixis Steppers in 1919. The group split up so she tried to become a chorus girl for the Dixie Steppers in the presentation Shuffle Along and got rejected. Why?
She was rejected because of her skin color and because of how skinny she was.