1. O.A. Please read pages 458-459 and answer the following questions:
Why might the nation’s large cities have been a magnet for many writers of the time?
How does the scene that Fitzgerald describes capture the essence of the Roaring Twenties?
What double meanings are conveyed in the language of the poems of Millay and Hughes?

2. Changing ones attitude & perspective on life
Harlem Renaissance
Changing ones attitude & perspective on life

3. The Harlem Renaissance was -
A literary & artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
African Americans migrated north from the south
Expressed a changing attitude among themselves

4. Goal Setting
NAACP expanded – protested racial violence such as lynching
UNIA founded – awakened pride, economic interdependence, and reverence for Africa

5. Celebrated African American culture through -
Writers – Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
Performers – Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters
Music – Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong