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Harlem Renaissance—Viewer’s Guided Notes
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1. In _________, the ____________ founded Harlem.
2. Harlem was ____________ and mostly a _____________ neighborhood.
3. It’s now known as a place of rich ________________________ heritage.
4. What does Renaissance mean? _____________________
5. The Harlem Renaissance began in ________ and continued into the _________.
6. What was 1 of the causes of the Harlem Renaissance?
______________________________________________________________________________
7. What were 3 reasons for this movement? Higher _____________, greater __________________
opportunities, and hope of escaping __________________.
8. Harlem became a tight-knit community made up of African-Americans from the _____________,
black _____________________ from the West Indies and native _________________________.
9. 2 themes of the artists’ work were: _________________ and _________________.
10. Even though Harlem wasn’t in the South, discrimination, _____________________, and
_____________________ still existed.
11. Claude McCay was one of the greatest _________________ of the Harlem Renaissance. He was
from ___________________.
12. Langston Hughes had a more ____________________ style of writing.
13. Zora Neale Hurston’s love for rural, _________ culture set her apart from other artists of the
period.
14. She studied folk tales in __________________ and ___________________.
15. R_________________, J________ and B__________________ musicians transformed music
during this time period.
16. _____________________________________ contributed to the decline of the Harlem
Renaissance in the mid-1930s because people couldn’t afford to buy artists’ work.