Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance created an environment
where art flourished in a rediscovery of the
past, a celebration of the present, and a
determination to change the future.
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Harlem, 1924
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From 1919 to 1929, Harlem, New York became the
capitol of cultural activity for
African-Americans. It began with...
Philosophy
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W.E.B. du Bois

• founder of Niagara Movement
• founder of N.A.A.C.P.
• editor of The Crisis

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Lift every voice and Sing till the earth and
heaven ring. Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
James Weldon Johnson
historian diplomat novelist poet
lawyer songwriter editor civil rights
leader
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Marcus Garvey

• formed the Universal Negro Improvement
  Association,
• began the back to Africa movement

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Literature
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Langston Hughes
I've known rivers Ancient, dusky rivers, My
soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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Your grief and mine Must intertwine Like sea and
river, Be fused and mingle, Diverse yet
single, Forever and forever
Countee Cullen
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Zora Neale Hurston

• Novelist
• playwright
• collected preserved African-American folklore

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ART
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MURALS BY
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AARON
DOUGLAS
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Palmer Hayden
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William Johnson
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The beauty of...
COLOR
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META WARRICK FULLER
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background music, The Mooche
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The most important Blues singer of the 1920s
was...
Bessie Smith
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New Orleans Jazz
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He was the first to record a song with scat!
Louis Armstrong
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Jazz and the Blues
Fats Waller
Duke Ellington
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Performers
Paris Nightclubs Dance Song French Resistance
fight against Nazis
Josephine Baker
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• Harvard Law School
• All American Football Player
• Writer
• Baritone Singer
• 1st African American to Play Othello on Stage

Paul Robeson
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Inc. Bearden, Romare Harry Henderson. A
History of African- American Artists. New York
Pantheon Books, 1993. Driskell, David, David L.
Lewis, Deborah W. Ryan. Harlem Renaissance
Art of Black America. New York Abradale
Press, 1987. National Museum of American Art.
Www.nmaa.si.edu/. National Museum of American
Art 1997 Netnoirs Black History Month.
Www.netnoir.com/spotlight/bhm97/. Netnoir, Inc.
1996. Salley, Columbus. The Black 100. New
York Citadel Press, 1993.