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Harlem Renaissance (Great figures and their works (First (Langston Hughes)…

- - - - Poet, novelist, playwright, columnist, social activist
      - "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
  - - - Musician
  - - - Writer, sociologist, civil rights activists, historian
  - - - Musician, composer
  - - - Poet, novelist, journalist
  - - - Painter
  - - - Novelist
  - - - Singer
  - - - Dancer, singer, fashion icon
  - - - Writer, Philosopher, educator
- - - - He used scraps of magazines to make his art (collaging)
        
        His famous painting is The Odyssey
      - He was trying to show that African Americans rights were increasingly growing
  - - - Even though shows had more black people performing then white people Harlem was still had some segregated areas so there were mostly white people going to the shows
      - Jazz and Blues rhas their roots baited off of African culture
      - White people became To like jazz and blues music even though the people that sang it were black people
      - Harlem was now the biggest place for jazz and blues music With a lot of Jazz and Blues musicians living in Harlem
      - Black people were accepted as musicians it wasn't like before and a white person would see you and walk away now if a white personal walked by and a black persons was singing good they would stop and listen
    - - 1920s referred as the Jazz age
      - Started off in New Orleans and became popular after the Great migration
      - "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." Louise Armstrong
    - - Started off in the South when slaves were in the fields or in their sleeping quarters
      - The blues moved up north with the black people but blues never got as popular as the white population as jazz music did