Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

Pair Share What is your favorite type of music? Why do you like this type of music?

Objective Describe the changing culture of the 1920’s

The Great Migration • Beginning in the early 1900’s African Americans began moving out of the south and into Northern cities looking for work • 200,000 flocked to New York city, settling in an area called Harlem • Writers, musicians, poets and other artists also congreagated in Harlem leading to a “Renaissance” or growth in expression and thinking. Celebrate their history and culture.

Harlem Renaissance During the 1920s Harlem became the center for African American writers, painters, and musicians. They gathered to develop and celebrate their distinctive cultures. Why Flock to Harlem? *Location *center for theater & publishing

An American Sound Jazz music has roots in ragtime and the blues, which African Americans had adapted their work-songs. As jazz music moved north it spread from African American to white audiences. It became so popular that the decade became known as the Jazz Age.

Jazz Music Louis Armstrong: Hello Dolly Jelly Roll Martin: Beale Street Blues Duke Ellington (composer and pianist) and Ella Fitzgerald: It Don’t Mean a Thing

Harlem in the 1920s was home to tens of thousands of African Americans, many from the South, who felt a strong sense of racial pride and identity in this new place. • This spirit attracted a historic influx of talented African American writers, thinkers, musicians, and artists, resulting in the Harlem Renaissance. • Artists • Black artists won fame during this era, often focusing on the experiences of African Americans. • William H. Johnson, Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence were well known. • Writers • Little African American literature was published before that era. • Writers like Zora Neale Hurston and James Weldon Johnson wrote of facing white prejudice. • Poets • Poets like Claude McKay and Langston Hughes wrote of black defiance and hope. • These poets recorded the distinctive culture of Harlem in the 1920s. A Renaissance in Harlem

Children's Rhymes By what sendsthe white kidsI ain't sent:I know I can'tbe President. What don't bugthem white kidssure bugs me:We know everybodyain't free. Lies written downfor white folksain't for us a-tall:Liberty And Justice--Huh!--For All?

Review • What is meant by the “Roaring 20’s?” • Why was the Harlem Renaissance beneficial for African Americans? • Name one important person from the Harlem Renaissaince. Why was this person important? • What music helped define the 1920’s? • Describe this type of music. • Write a 5-10 line poem describing the 1920s in the United States.

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Assignment – 20 Points • Use chapter 10.3 to complete the following activity. How did each of the following affect American Society in the 1920’s? (3-4 sentences each) Radio Movies New Heroes Arts Which of the four do you feel was the most important to the development of popular culture in the United States? Explain your answer (1/2) Page)

Harlem Renaissance