Harlem Renaissance 1917 - 1935
Renaissance – definition
Where was the Harlem Renaissance?
New York
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
• The name given to an artistic movement in Harlem at the end of WWI through middle of 1930s.
• Became a center for black writers, musicians, poets, artists, photographers, and scholars to express themselves freely.
Key People of the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong–
Paul Robeson – All-American athlete and multi-talented artist. Voice of political activism
What a Wonderful Worldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGKqH26xlg
First draft of Langston Hughes’ “Ballad of Booker T”.
Langston Hughes - Poet and writer. He gave an insider’s view to black American life
Marian Anderson on the steps of Lincoln Memorial
Marian Anderson - Singer
My Country ‘Tis of Theehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk
Why did the Harlem Renaissance happen?
• Migration of southern blacks
From 1900 – 1970 An estimated 5 million blacks migrated from the South
Thousands of black Americans left the South to escape sharecropping, poor economic conditions, and lynch mobs.
What was it like to be in Harlem Renaissance?
What was the importance of the Harlem Renaissance?
• Escaped racial prejudice of the south• Racial pride• Began a civil and political rights movement for
black Americans
Sources• Distribution of Black Population Map
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam008.html• Harlem During the Renaissance
http://www.longwharf.org/aint-misbehavin-hot-spots-harlem• Harlem Renaissance http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html• Langston Hughes “Ballad of Booker T”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/024))• Langston Hughes http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-Langston
Hughes http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94506949/• Louis Armstrong http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html • Marian Anderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk• Marian Anderson http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ item/2004662516/ • Paul Robeson http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/079_vanv.html)