Transcript Sec. 21.4”

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“Sec. 21.4 Notes”
Topic: The Harlem Renaissance
Causes and Effects of the Harlem Renaissance
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Causes
Great Migration
Need to be heard
(politically)
Emerging
educated/middle
class supports A.A.
art, music, &
literature
Emerging white
interest in A.A.
culture (jazz)
Harlem
Renaissance
Effects
• Creation of an
African American
voice
• Celebration
of A.A. culture
& life
• Hughes,
Armstrong,
Ellington become
American icons
Langston Hughes
“HARLEM”
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 sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Zora Neale Hurston
Author and
anthropologist
Louis Armstrong