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2 What was the Harlem Renaissance?

3 Industrialization attracts African Americans to northern cities.
Harlem, in New York City, became a center for the expanding black middle class.

4 An Explosion of Black Culture in Harlem:
Which of the arts did the Harlem Renaissance affect?

5 Painting and Sculpture

6 JAZZ Count Basie

7 Duke Ellington

8 Billie Holiday

9 LITERATURE Langston Hughes

10 Countee Cullin She even thinks that Up in heaven
For A Lady I Know User Rating: 6.5 /10 (15 votes) Print friendly version this poem to e friend Send this poem as eCard Add this poem to MyPoemList She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and snores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores. For A Lady I Know She even thinks that Up in heaven Her class lies late and snores. While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores

11 Zora Neale Hurston

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13 What were Jim Crow Laws?

14 The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.

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