1. Topic: The Harlem Renaissance
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Topic: The Harlem Renaissance

2. Causes and Effects of the Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
Need to be heard (politically)
Emerging educated/middle class supports A.A. art, music, & literature
Emerging white interest in A.A. culture (jazz)
Effects
Creation of an African American voice
Celebration
of A.A. culture
& life
Hughes, Armstrong, Ellington become American icons
Harlem
Renaissance

3. Langston Hughes
“HARLEM” What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

4. Zora Neale Hurston
Author and anthropologist

5. Louis Armstrong