Download The Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 13- Section 4
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On your homework:
 Two words that best describe the Harlem
Renaissance.
 Write a paragraph explaining what the Harlem
Renaissance is and explain its significance.
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Langston Hughes
•Zora Neale Hurston
•W.E.B. DuBois
•Apollo Theatre
•Billie Holiday
W.E.B. Du Bois and James
Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey
NAACP- National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
UNIA- Universal Negro Improvement
Association
African Americans should: Fight for
equal rights and against racial violence
African Americans should: Build a
separate society and become
economically independent;
encouraged “Black Pride”
Goals: Legislation that would help
protect African Americans from
discrimination and violence. – AntiLynching Laws
Goals: Becoming independent from
the white man, returning to Africa
Tactics: Parades, writing/publishing in
newspapers and magazines
Tactics: Parades, meetings, speeches
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Claude McKay- novelist
 Urged readers to resist prejudice and discrimination;
the pain of living in black ghettos
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Langston Hughes- poet
 Described the difficult lives of working class African
Americans
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Zora Neale Hurston- “Common Person’s Art”
 “I do not weep at [being Negro]- I am too busy
sharpening my oyster knife.”– Hurston
 Wrote stories about poor, southern, uneducated
African Americans
Read the following poems provided in class
then answer the questions on a separate
sheet of paper.
 I, too
 My People
 Merry-go-round
•Quickly spreading across the nation
Coming from cities like New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City
Music of the Prohibition Era
Flappers
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Started as a Lawyer
 Ended because of
racism/tension
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Became an Actor
Going against the
status quo – activist
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http://www.pbs.org/wn
et/americanmasters/ep
isodes/paulrobeson/about-theactor/66/
•Born August 4, 1901 Died July 6,
1971
•Nicknamed “Satchmo”
•American Jazz trumpeter and
singer
•Famous for Improvisation
•Born April 29, 1899 Died May 24,
1974
•American pianist, composer, and
bandleader
•Winner of 13 Grammy Awards
•Called his music “American
Music”
• Born October 20, 1890
Died July 10,
1941
•American ragtime pianist, composer,
and bandleader
•Toured the country playing his music
•Recorded music through interviews for
the Library of Congress in Washington,
D.C.
Dance Craze of the 20s
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1eGgFTLx4
The Charleston
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-
WtU6cR8s&feature=related
Modern music with the Charleston
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oq0-
0iRVg&feature=fvw