Harlem Renaissance
Development; literature, art, music
Great figures and their works
Background and what it is
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Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
W.E.B. Du Bois
Duke Ellington
Claude McKay
Aaron Douglas
Alain LeRoy Locke
Bessie Smith
Josephine Baker
Zora Neale Hurston
Poet, novelist, playwright, columnist, social activist
Writer, Philosopher, educator
Musician
Writer, sociologist, civil rights activists, historian
Musician, composer
Poet, novelist, journalist
Painter
Singer
Dancer, singer, fashion icon
Novelist
Hook
Did you know that the Harlem Renaissance wasn't actually called the "Harlem Renaissance " it was called the "New Negro Movement"?
Literature
Art
Music
Before the Renaissance mostly the people that published their work was white people but it was usually white men
Blues and Jazz
The black writers gave a voice to all black people at that tim
Black writers attacked black stereotypes and wrote about what it felt like to be left out of America
The themes of art was usually African American life styles or the of racism
Most recognized artist of the Harlem Renaissance was Romar Bearden
He used scraps of magazines to make his art (collaging)
He was trying to show that African Americans rights were increasingly growing
His famous painting is The Odyssey
Jazz
Blues
1920s referred as the Jazz age
Work CITED
Their were black people that wrote books but never wrote about being a minority race in America
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
Started off in New Orleans and became popular after the Great migration
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
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
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Ended
When the stalk market crashed and the U.S. had the Great Depression
The energy died down because if you didn't have money you couldn't go to the shows so if people didn't go to the shows the musicians didn't get money
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After World War I
After the Civil War black people were free but black people stayed in the South because it felt like home to them
Even though black people won many of their freedoms like voting and black people can run for public office
Southerners pasted a lot of laws called the Jim Crow Laws the Jim Crow laws stated that blacks and whites had to be segregated additionally a large population of hate groups and frequent hate crimes occurred
So blacks didn't like how they got treated so about 750,000 black people from the south moved up north and now we call it the great migration
The middle
It depended where you were in the South if you lived in the southwestern part you would move far west if you lived in the middle of the South you would move to Midwest lastly if you were in the Southeastern part you would move to the northeast
Harlem is upper Manhattan before the Harlem Renaissance their were a lot of immigrants from Europe like the Netherlands, Germany, and Ireland that lived in Harlem
The Harlem area had 175,000 black people their from the Great migration with a lot lower class white families living in New York, New York and Boston, Massachusetts
There has been and economic devastation since the booming economy that made it boom in the early 20s
Blacks weren't welcome with nice gestures. White immigrants would call black people the N word and be racially discriminated
Many whites traveled to Harlem for entertainment places like
-Cotton Club
-Apollo Theater
-Savoy Ballroom
but the cotton club club was an only white place and the apollo and Savoy was not segregated
If any one wanted to be a(n) dancer, singer, and artist of any form would go to Harlem in their lifetime (1919-1929)
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." Louise Armstrong
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills." W.E.B Du Bois
Concluding sentence of conclusion paragraph
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of the new African culture that had a huge cut in Americans art, music, and literature