1. World War I and the 1920s ( )
Lesson 8 The Harlem Renaissance

2. Lesson 8 The Harlem Renaissance
World War I and the 1920s ( )
Lesson 8 The Harlem Renaissance
Learning Objectives
Analyze how the Great Migration and the philosophies of Marcus Garvey affected African Americans in the 1920s.
Trace the development of jazz and its impact on American society and the rest of the world.
Discuss the themes explored by writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

3. Lesson 8 The Harlem Renaissance
World War I and the 1920s ( )
Lesson 8 The Harlem Renaissance
Key Terms
Marcus Garvey
jazz
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston

4. Support for Black Nationalism in Urban Areas
As a result of World War I and the Great Migration, millions of African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North. This mass migration continued through the 1920s and contributed to a flowering of music and literature. Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance made a lasting impact, not only on African Americans but on the culture all Americans share.

5. Support for Black Nationalism in Urban Areas
Migration Creates Opportunities and Challenges
The Impact of Marcus Garvey

6. Support for Black Nationalism in Urban Areas
Albert and Mildred Talbert emigrated from Oklahoma to Nebraska in Their son, Dakota, served in World War I and daughter, Ruth, graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1928.

7. The Jazz Age
It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who called the 1920s the “Jazz Age.” However, it was African Americans who contributed the jazz. A truly indigenous American musical form, jazz is a musical form based on improvisation. Jazz musicians creatively recombine different forms of music, including African American blues and ragtime, and European-based popular music. Jazz music was fast, free, loud, rebellious, and fun, so in many ways, it reflected the characteristics and issues of the 1920s.

8. The Jazz Age
A Unique Musical Style
Jazz Wins Worldwide Popularity

9. The Jazz Age
Analyze Charts How is the development of jazz related to modern musical genres such as hip-hop and rap?

10. The Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong’s raspy voice and trumpet playing helped promote the popularity of jazz around the world.

11. The Harlem Renaissance
Jazz and blues were expressions of the African American experience. The pain of the African American experience can be heard in the blues, and the joy of that experience in the soaring notes of jazz. The range of such African American musicians as Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway speaks to the varieties of African American life. But in the 1920s, there were other expressions of African American culture. Novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture and explored questions of race in America. This flowering of African American culture became known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance helped give a new vocabulary and dynamic to race relations in the United States.

12. The Harlem Renaissance
Cultural Movements in Literature and Art
The Lasting Impact of the Harlem Renaissance

13. The Harlem Renaissance
African American music legends, including Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, played regularly at Harlem's many nightclubs.

14. Quiz: Support for Black Nationalism in Urban Areas
What did Marcus Garvey advocate?
A. universal black nationalism
B. civil rights for immigrants
C. a mass migration to northern cities
D. collaboration between blacks and whites

15. Quiz: The Jazz Age Who was known as the “ambassador of jazz”?
A. Cole Porter
B. Bessie Smith
C. Louis Armstrong
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

16. Quiz: The Harlem Renaissance
Whose writing conveyed militant ideologies and political leftism during the Harlem Renaissance?
A. Jean Toomer
B. Claude McKay
C. Langston Hughes
D. Zora Neale Hurston