CULTURE The Harlem Renaissance 1920 S AFRICAN AMERICAN

CULTURE The Harlem Renaissance

1920 S AFRICAN AMERICAN / NAACP Great Migration (between 1910 -1930) CAUSES the growth in African American population in the North NAACP: National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (1909) • Magazine: The Crisis • Founded by W. E. B. Dubois • James Weldon Johnson: • Exec. Sect. of NAACP • co writer of Negro National anthem

17. MARCUS GARVEY AND THE UNIA Founded the UNIA – (Universal Negro Improvement Association)= Take black pride into yourself and your heritage

18. HARLEM – “CAPITAL” OF BLACK AMERICA Harlem – upper West side of Manhattan Island Became the largest African American urban community in the world

HARLEM RENAISSANCE A literary and artistic movement celebrating the AFRICAN AMERICAN culture / the great “flowering” of African American artistic activity in the 1920 s Most Famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance = Langston Hughes Poems show the difficult life of “Working-class African Americans”

LANGSTON HUGHES US poet, novelist and playwright Of the Harlem Renaissance “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sages like a heavy load. Or does it explode? ”

ZORA NEAL HURSTON Author during Harlem Renaissance “Their Eyes were Watching God” Origins of black culture

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JAZZ Jazz: born in the early 20 th century in New Orleans • Louis Armstrong: Famous Trumpet player and vocalist • Billie Holiday: • Duke Ellington: a Jazz pianist and composer & played at the famous “Cotton Club”