Harlem Renaissance 1919-1948

WHAT IS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE? It was a time of great development of art, literature, music and culture in the African-American Community. It is also known as the New Negro Movement.

Where Is Harlem? HARLEM, NEW YORK

What led to the Harlem Renaissance? They migrated to urban centers like New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. From 1910 to 1930, African-Americans left their southern homes. Racism and lack of economic opportunities led them to leave the South. They were searching for better lives.

Why "Harlem" Renaissance? Of the almost 750,000 African Americans who moved North, nearly 175,000 moved to Harlem. Harlem is a section of Manhattan, which covers three square miles; therefore, Harlem became the largest concentration of black people in the world. http://www.chipublib.org/001hwlc/litlists/harlemren.html

How did it impact history? The Harlem Renaissance helped to redefine how Americans and the world understood African American culture. It integrated black and white cultures, and marked the beginning of a black urban society. The Harlem Renaissance set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

Who coined the Harlem Renaissance? Alain LeRoy Locke wrote The New Negro in 1925. Locke described the northward migration of blacks as "something like a spiritual emancipation." Black urban migration, combined with trends in American society as a whole toward experimentation during the 1920s…”

According to Alain Locke, who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance? Locke stated that the rise of radical black intellectuals contributed to movement: Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). W. E. B. Du Bois was the editor of The Crisis magazine.

According to Alain Locke, who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance? Countee Cullen wrote A Brown Girl Dead For A Lady I Know For A Poet From the Dark Tower Fruit of the Flower Langston Hughes, a poet, wrote Let America Be America Again I, Too, Sing America Life Is Fine Dream Deferred Mother to Son

According to Alain Locke, who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance? Zora Neale Hurston was a writer who wrote , Their Eyes Were Watching God Mules and Men Tell My Horse Claude Mc Kay wrote “If We Must Die” Harlem Shadows Home to Harlem

The Musicians from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington (April 29th, 1899 – May 24th, 1974)

The Musicians from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Billie Holiday April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994)

The Musicians from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)

The Artists from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Aaron Douglass (May 26, 1899 – February 3, 1979)

The Artists from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Augusta Savage (February 29, 1892 – March 26, 1962) "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Gamin.

The Artists from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Lois Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998) Les Fetiches The Ascent of Ethiopia

The Artists from the Harlem Renaissance ERA Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) The Great Migration Series