1. Harlem Renaissance
1920’s
By: Reda Z. & Deniz Y.

2. Background: Summary Renaissance: an awakening of some sort
Harlem renaissance symbolizes the upsurge of black consciousness in the US
Flourish of African American culture, music, and visual arts
social organizations formed to improve African American circumstances

3. Factors that Caused the Harlem Renaissance

4. Music Harlem was the go to place for jazz
Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Willie Smith
cotton club
Music created a sense of community
Music was popular
William Grant Still- First black composer for major orchestra

5. Art Black artists wanted to capture soul , movement and energy

6. 1920’s Influence social and new culture in the north
“You only live once” idea
rapid new culture shaped Harlem and its culture

7. Organizations NAACP: founded by W.E.B Dubois in 1909
National Urban League: founded in 1911
took a practical approach to improve the social and economic conditional of the African Americans
“Opportunity”
UNIA: Founded by Marcus Garvey

8. Primary Source

9. Background: People Langston Hughes
Finest poem on the kinship of black & white Americans
"I, too, sing America
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed, -
I, too, am America. "
Never forgot his duty to "the race“ (grandfather incident)
broke traditional notion of what poetry meant & used blues language & mood to depict the lives of the "low-down" folks

10. Cont. W.E.B. Du Bois: (NAACP). Wrote:
"Make way for democracy! We saved it in France, and by Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason why."
debates about race, politics, and history

11. Cont. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Ethel Waters:
experimented with new motifs & styles
Jazz
Created two musical genres: Jazz & Blues
Louis Armstrong

12. Cont. Richard Wright: American writer
rose to bring back culture and entertainment into the mainstream

13. Cont. James Weldon Johnson:
captured much of the literary, artistic, and musical vibrancy of the Harlem Renaissance
highlighted much of the vitality of the African American cultural life

14. Works Cited
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