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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance. 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. Harlem, 1924.

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Harlem Renaissance

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  1. Harlem Renaissance

  2. 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.

  3. Harlem, 1924

  4. From 1919 to 1929, Harlem, New York became the capitol of cultural activity for African-Americans. It began with... Philosophy

  5. W.E.B. du Bois • founder of Niagara Movement • founder of N.A.A.C.P. • editor of The Crisis

  6. “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

  7. Marcus Garvey • formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association, • began the “back to Africa movement”

  8. Literature

  9. Langston Hughes “I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers, My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

  10. “Your grief and mine Must intertwine Like sea and river, Be fused and mingle, Diverse yet single, Forever and forever” Countee Cullen

  11. Zora Neale Hurston • Novelist • playwright • collected & preserved African-American folklore

  12. ART

  13. MURALS BY

  14. AARON DOUGLAS

  15. Palmer Hayden

  16. William Johnson

  17. The beauty of... COLOR

  18. META WARRICK FULLER

  19. background music, The Mooche

  20. The most important Blues singer of the 1920’s was... Bessie Smith

  21. New Orleans Jazz

  22. He was the first to record a song with scat! Louis Armstrong

  23. Jazz and the Blues Fats Waller Duke Ellington

  24. Performers Paris Nightclubs Dance & Song French Resistance fight against Nazis Josephine Baker

  25. Harvard Law School • All American Football Player • Writer • Baritone Singer • 1st African American to Play Othello on Stage Paul Robeson

  26. 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.

  27. Works Cited Alexander, Scott. The Red Hot Jazz Archive. Www.technoir.net/jazz/. Technoir, 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 Netnoir’s Black History Month. Www.netnoir.com/spotlight/bhm97/. Netnoir, Inc.: 1996. Salley, Columbus. The Black 100. New York: Citadel Press, 1993.

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