Art Reflecting Communities: The Harlem Renaissance

1. Warm Up 4.6 How does art reflect the community that you live in? What are some examples of art that reflects your community? Art may include: fashion, dance, literature, paintings, photographs, architecture, sculpture, paintings, drama….

2. The Harlem Renaissance

3. I. The Great Migration • Many African-Americans moved to cities in the North.

4. I. The Great Migration • Many African-Americans moved to cities in the North. “Some said goodbye cheerfully…others fearfully, with terrors of unknown dangers in their mouths…others in their eagerness for distance said nothing. The daybreak found them gone. The wind said North.” Zora Neal Hurston “

5. B. W.E.B. Dubois stepped up the efforts of the NAACP by leading a parade of 10,000 African American men and he pushed for new laws. .

6. B. W.E.B. Dubois stepped up the efforts of the NAACP by leading a parade of 10,000 African American men and he pushed for new laws. C. Marcus Garvey believed that African-Americans should live in separate societies and began the “Back to Africa” movement.

7. II. Harlem, the world’s largest black community. • suffered from overcrowding, unemployment and poverty.

8. II. Harlem, the world’s largest black community. • suffered from overcrowding, unemployment and poverty. • However, black urban communities stimulated: self-confidence, economic opportunity, political rights, and freedoms.

9. C. This led to the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture which eclipsed Harlem’s problems in the 1920s.

10. III. Literature A. Authors such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurstonwrote literature that both celebrated African-American culture and discussed the struggles many faced.

11. IV. Jazz • Jazz clubs became very popular in Harlem. 1.Whites would drive in on the weekends to be entertained by Black Jazz performers. • However many clubs on the white side of town did not allow blacks unless they were performing.