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2/6/12 25 “Sec. 21.4 Notes” Topic: The Harlem Renaissance Causes and Effects of the Harlem Renaissance • • • • 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
