1. Generalizations: The Harlem Renaissance

2. Directions: This activity will focus on three areas of the Harlem Renaissance Arts: 1.Graphic Art 2.Language Arts 3.Jazz Music While looking at each section answer the questions for that medium on your w/s “Generalizations: The Harlem Rennaissance.”

3. Graphic Art

4. Blues, 1929 Archibald J. Motley, Jr.

5. Cocktails, c. 1926 Archibald Motley, Jr.

6. Into Bondage, 1936 Aaron Douglas

7. Ironers, 1943 Jacob Lawrence

8. Going to Church, c. 1940-41 William H. Johnson

9. Language Arts

10. Poetry Langston Hughes Let America be America Again Read this poem aloud in class

11. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” 1921 Langston Hughes I've known rivers... I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young, I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep, I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it, I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, And I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient dusky rivers, My soul has grown deep like the rivers. http://www.poets.org/ viewmedia.php/prmM ID/15722http://www.poets.org/ viewmedia.php/prmM ID/15722

12. Jazz Music

14. Fats Waller

15. Art of the Harlem Renaissance Why Harlem? –The Great Migration, soldiers returning from WWI –The North: Greater freedom AND anger at more racism Pan-Africa feelings –Popularity of Egyptian art & culture –Shed the ex-slave identity –Create a powerful, intelligent identity