1. The Harlem Renaissance

2. The Harlem Renaissance
The Music
The Harlem Renaissance
Bessie Smith
Cab Calloway
“The Empress of Jazz”
“The King of Swing”

3. The Harlem Renaissance
The Music
The Harlem Renaissance
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
“The Duke”
“Satchmo”

4. The Harlem Renaissance
The Writers
The Harlem Renaissance
December 1919
Last night I heard your voice, mother,
The words you sang to me
When I, a little barefoot boy,
Knelt down against your knee,
And tears gushed form my heart, mother,
And passed beyond its wall,
But though the fountain reached my throat
The drops refused to fall.
‘Tis ten years since you died, mother,
Just ten dark years of pain,
And oh, I only wish that I
Could weep just once again.
Claude McKay

5. The Harlem Renaissance
The Writers
The Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston

6. The Harlem Renaissance
The Writers
The Harlem Renaissance
The Wise
Dead men are wisest, for they know
How far the roots of flowers go,
How long a seed must rot to grow.
Dead men alone bear frost and rain
On throbless heart and heatless brain,
And feel no stir of joy or pain.
Dead men alone are satiate;
They sleep and dream and have no weight,
To curb their rest, of love or hate.
Strange, men should flee their company,
Or think me strange who long to be
Wrapped in their cool immunity.
Langston Hughes

7. The Harlem Renaissance
On Stage
The Harlem Renaissance
Josephine Baker
Paul Robeson

8. The Harlem Renaissance
Politics
The Harlem Renaissance
Co-Founder of N.A.A.C.P.
Founder of UNIA
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
“Back to Africa Movement”