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The Harlem Renaissance
New York, New York
Ashley Duell & Molly Smith
What is it the Harlem
Renaissance?
 “Harlem Renaissance refers to an era of written and
artistic creativity among African-Americans that
occurred after World War I and lasted until the middle
of the 1930s Depression.”
 Referred to as the capital of Black America
 Changed the identity and history of African-Americans
and the American culture as a whole
What is it? - continued
 The African-American culture was transformed. Other racial
cultures could now better understand African-Americans through
their style, productions, expression, and thoughts which were
expressed by:
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Literature
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Music
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Dance
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Art
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Social commentary in neighborhoods
 Night clubs, community centers, cafes, galleries, publishing houses
sprung up all over Harlem
 Energy and excitement
The Beginning
Migration of African-Americans
from 1919 to 1926 to northern cities
in the United States was a major
factor that lead to the beginning of
the Harlem Renaissance.
Literary discussions in Manhattan
came to be known as ‘The New
Negro Movement.’
Langston Hughes
Hughes’ Life
Hughes and the Harlem
Renaissance
Famous Quotes
for Hughes
Describing Harlem in the
1920s…"not so much a place as a
state of mind, the cultural metaphor
for black America itself.“
Hughes once said the city of Harlem
was "a great magnet for the Negro
intellectual."
Zora Neale Hurston
W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B DuBois Life
 Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868
 Well educated man
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Attended Fisk University (3 years) and Harvard University (5 years)
 Taught at Wilberforce University and Atlanta University. While
working there he wrote many of his books including: The
Philadelphia Negro and The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade
 Became a US Senator in 1951.
 Moved to Ghana, and died there in 1963
DuBois’s Influence in the Harlem
Renaissance
 Became known as the “Father of Pan Africanism” because he a was
spokesperson for African-American legal rights
 At the Niagara Movement led by DuBois he addressed the right for
African-Americans to vote and promoted their rights.
 His books are considered the ground-breaking work that inspired the
Renaissance.”
 DuBois helped form the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) which effects from it can still be seen
today
 His actions showed American that “black people were not inferior to
whites simply because of their race.”
E.E. Cummings
 Born in 1894, Cambridge, Masshacutes and died on
September 3rd, 1962.
Resources
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-494779091.HTML
 http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cumm
ings_life.htm
 http://www.gwu.edu/~e73afram/am-mw-jk.html
 http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/zhurst
on.html
 http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/harlem.ht
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 http://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Cummings-E-E.html