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1 Section 4 Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 13 Section 4 Harlem Renaissance

2 African-American Voices
DuBois and James W. Johnson Marcus Garvey NAACP – protest racial violence Antilynching laws Represented new more militant voice Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Build a separate society Speeches, mass rallies, parades Promote black businesses Return to Africa

3 Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American Culture
Harlem Renaissance Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American Culture Alain Locke publishes The New Negro

4 Writers Claude McKay Langston Hughes Resist prejudice and oppression
The pain of being black in a white dominated world Describes the difficult lives of working class blacks Jazz and blues tempo

5 Female Writers, Actors Zora Neale Hurston Paul Robeson
Portrayed the lives of poor, illiterate Southern blacks Celebrated the common person Dramatic actor Shakespeare’s Othello

6 Jazz Louis Armstrong-trumpet player considered most important
musician in history of Jazz Duke Ellington- jazz pianist and composer Bessie Smith – female blues singer Cotton Club – famous Jazz nightclub

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