Transcript The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 13 Section 4
The Harlem Renaissance
• The Harlem Renaissance
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Why/ How did it start?
• Many African Americans who migrated
North during the Great Migration moved to
Harlem, a neighborhood on the Upper
West Side of New York’s Manhattan.
• Harlem became the world’s largest black
urban community.
• Suffered from Unemployment,
overcrowding and Povery.
Why/ How did it start?
• Led by well educated, middle-class
African-Americans who expressed a new
pride in the African-American experience.
Definition
• Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic
movement celebrating African-American
culture.
Writers and Contributors
• Alain Locke – The New Negro landmark
collection of literary works by young
promising African-American Writers.
• Claude McKay – novelist and poet, Poems
expressed the pain of life in black ghettos.
• Langston Hughes – movements best
known poet. Described the lives of working
class African Americans.
• Zora Neal Hurston- portrayed live of poor,
unschooled Southern blacks.
African American Writers
Musicians and Contributors
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African American performers
Florence Mills
Josephine Baker
Mabel Mercer
Paul Robeson –
– major dramatic actor
– Played Othello in London and New York
African Americans and Jazz
• Jazz was born in the early 20th century in New
Orleans.
• Joe “King” Oliver brought jazz to Chicago.
• Louis Armstrong – Most famous. Trumpet
player. Most important and influential musician in
the history of Jazz.
• Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington – Jazz
Pianist and Composer
• Bessie Smith- Female blues singer most
outstanding vocalist of the decade. Became
Highest paid black artist in the world.
Effects on African-Americans
• The Harlem Renaissance represented a
portion of a great social and cultural
changes that swept across America in the
1920’s. Characterized by economic
prosperity, new ideas, changing values,
and personal freedom as well as important
developments in art literature and Music.