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The Harlem Renaissance Mr. Bach Hudson High School United States History.

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1 The Harlem Renaissance Mr. Bach Hudson High School United States History

2 Harlem Renaissance New York City’s Harlem neighborhood gets a huge population boom due to the Great Migration. Harlem will become the center of an African- American cultural re-birth.

3 Harlem Renaissance – Why Now? Blacks feel a sense of unity and pride in their own distinct neighborhood in Harlem away from white oppression. A number of white publishing companies started to agree to publish black literature and record black music. –White people as well as blacks became fans of the new black art styles.

4 Art of Harlem

5 Literature of Harlem

6 Paul Robeson

7 Josephine Baker

8 Music of Harlem Jazz – completely American form of music defined by improvisation and creativity, not rules.


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