2. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: UPLIFTING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE By: Annessa Young

3.  A love for the arts  Creative  Something Different Reason for Selected Topic

4.  20 th Century  Harlem, New York  African Americans  The Arts  Flourishing of Culture Background of the Harlem Renaissance

5. Famous Harlem Renaissance Pioneers Langston Hughes Charles S. Johnson E. Franklin Frazier Rudolph Fisher Hubert T. Delaney

6. Research Question Why was the Harlem Renaissance such a significance to history?

7. It is evident that the Harlem Renaissance ultimately uplifted the African American race through literature and music, thus defying the dominant culture's stereotypical perspectives. Thesis Statement

8.  The most influential time of cultural black history  Enabled African Americans to express their feelings  Created a trend for other generations Significance to History

9.  Thomas Jefferson states, “In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time.... Whether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated harmony, is yet to be proved. Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. —Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry.”  As stated in Down Home by Robert Bone, “Sophistication also meant a fructifying contact with white intellectuals.  According to Richard A. Long the Harlem Renaissance was, “a…motif presence of race consciousness…merely as an assertion of an essential identity.” Support/Evidence from Scholarly Sources

10. I learned more about the Negro Movement. I re learned CMS. I learned that African Americans wanted to be apart of something. What did Ms. Young Learn?

11. Bone, Robert. Down Home: A history of Afro-American short Fiction from Its Beginnings to the End of the Harlem Renaissance, 1975. Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. “Thomas Jefferson on the African American Race.” Yale Law School,2006.http://www.historytools.org.http://www.historytools.org Long, Richard A. One More Time: Harlem Renaissance History & Historicism, 2006. Bibliography

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