Big Ideas
Why did African Americans move North in the 1920's and what was the movement called?
What is to escape racial segregation (Jim Crow Laws) and it was called The Great Migration?
The (blank) made alcohol illegal, but people still drank illegally for at (blank).
What is the prohibition and speakeasies?
The literature written by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance focused on what?
What are being proud to be African American and not conforming to ideas of the past?
This Harlem Renaissance man wrote inspirational poetry, was a social activist, and a novelist.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The Harlem Renaissance era really kicked off after this major war.
What is WWI?
The Harlem Renaissance era was an important movement for these two groups of people.
Who were women and African Americans?
What were "flappers"?
What are a new kind of woman who was free, fashionable and independent?
What is the main message of the poem "Harlem?" How does that relate to the African American experience?
Hint: a dream
What is the effects of a dream deferred and it pushed them to not give up on their dreams?
This singer was a product of life in Harlem and who was an orphan for two years.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The Harlem Renaissance faded out when this major event happened in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
Why were the 1920's labeled "The Roaring 20's?"
Identify two reasons.
What is the economy was booming after the war, young people rebelled against the authorities of the past, and people began spending money on leisure activities?
What was "The New Negro?"
What is a term coined for the new, sophisticated, intelligent African American filled with racial pride?
Name three types of literature predominately used during this era.
What are advertisements, jazz, poetry, and art?
This man was a social activist who helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The era of drinking being illegal lasted for how many years?
What are 13 years (1920-1933)?
How did speakeasies help kick off the Harlem Renaissance?
What is speakeasies were illegal pubs that everyone went to and listened to African Americans play jazz, which directly influenced the rise in literature for African Americans?
This famous nightclub is where Duke Ellington and his orchestra played at many times.
What is The Cotton Club?
Name three important things that we looked at in Langston Hughes's poetry and why are they important in understanding the African American experience in 1920's America?
What are the implications of society, the African American experience, the intended audience, the speaker, and the message?
This jazz artist specifically is known as one of the most prominent jazz artists of the era, playing specifically at speakeasies with his orchestra.
Name two innovations that made it possible for women to be able to work.
What are sliced bread and ready-made clothes?
Recall from our previous unit: What are the five writing characteristics of Transcendental writing?
What are nonconformity, self-reliance, free thought, confidence and the importance of nature?
Name three ways we still see the influence of the Harlem Renaissance today.
What are the NAACP, the NUL, jazz music, etc.?
Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers?"
Who painted "The Migration Series" and what did it depict?
Who is Jacob Lawrence and it depicted the struggles of African Americans migrating North?
What two organizations are a direct result of the Harlem Renaissance?
What are the NAACP and the NUL?