THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

THE GREAT MIGRATION BETWEEN 1910 AND 1920, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS LEFT THE SOUTH TO FIND WORK IN NORTHERN CITIES

QUEST FOR RIGHTS THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP) WAS ESTABLISHED BY W.E.B. DU BOIS AND LATER LED BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON.

MAJOR GOALS OF NAACP 1. PROTEST RACIAL VIOLENCE 2. PUBLISH MAGAZINE CALLED THE CRISIS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 3. PROMOTE ANTI-LYNCHING LAWS

CALL FOR A SEPARATE SOCIETY MARCUS GARVEY FOUNDED THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. IT PROMOTED BLACK PRIDE AND SEPARATISM, INCLUDING A BACK TO AFRICA MOVEMENT.

WELCOME TO HARLEM IN THE 1920’S, HARLEM, A NEIGHBORHOOD IN NEW YORK CITY, BECAME THE WORLD’S LARGEST URBAN BLACK COMMUNITY

WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE? THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE WAS A LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MOVEMENT OF THE 1920’S THAT CELEBRATED AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE.

WRITERS CELEBRATE THEIR BLACK HERITAGE CLAUDE MCKAY WROTE MILITANT VERSES THAT URGED AFRICAN AMERICANS TO RESIST PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION JEAN TOOMER’S BOOK CANE IS A MIX OF POEMS AND SKETCHES ABOUT BLACKS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH

LANGSTON HUGHES THIS BEST KNOWN POET OF THE MOVEMENT OFTEN DESCRIBED THE DIFFICULT LIVES OF WORKING CLASS AFRICAN AMERICANS.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON HURSTON FOCUSED ON THE FOLKWAYS AND SIMPLE VALUES OF POOR, OFTEN UNEDUCATED SOUTHERN BLACKS.

AND THE FAMOUS PAINTER AARON DOUGLAS CAPTURES THE BLACK EXPERIENCE

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THE JAZZ AGE THE FAMOUS PHRASE COINED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD FOR THE 1920’S…

THE MUSIC THE MULTI-TALENTED PAUL ROBESON

DUKE ELLINGTON

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

CAB CALLOWAY

AND THE “EMPRESS OF THE BLUES” MS. BESSIE SMITH

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE EXPRESSED THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS