1. Renaissance – definition
Harlem Renaissance
Renaissance – definition

2. Where was the Harlem Renaissance?
New York

3. What was the Harlem Renaissance? What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The name given to an artistic movement in Harlem at the end of WWI through middle of 1930s.
Became a center for black writers, musicians, poets, artists, photographers, and scholars to express themselves freely.

4. Key People of the Harlem Renaissance
Paul Robeson – All-American athlete and multi-talented artist. Voice of political activism
Louis Armstrong–
What a Wonderful World

5. First draft of Langston Hughes’ “Ballad of
Booker T”.
Langston Hughes - Poet and writer. He gave an insider’s view to black American life

6. Marian Anderson on the steps of Lincoln Memorial
My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Marian Anderson - Singer

7. Why did the Harlem Renaissance happen?
Migration of southern blacks
From 1900 – An estimated 5 million blacks migrated from the South
Thousands of black Americans left the South to escape sharecropping, poor economic conditions, and lynch mobs.

8. What was it like to be in Harlem Renaissance?

9. What was the importance of the Harlem Renaissance?
Escaped racial prejudice of the south
Racial pride
Began a civil and political rights movement for black Americans

10. Sources
Distribution of Black Population Map
Harlem During the Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes “Ballad of Booker T”
Langston Hughes Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson item/ /
Paul Robeson