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Bullet Points 1."Harlem (A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes 2.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.Home To Harlem by Claude McKay Paraphrasing
Bullet Points 1."Harlem (A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes
2.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.Home To
Harlem by Claude McKay Paraphrasing The Harlem Renaissance was
called The New Negro Movement because it was a movement of
Negro-French that was centrally in Harlem neighborhoods in New York
Quote "Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make
me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves
the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. Zora Hurston Fun Fact
The white literary establishment soon became fascinated with the
writers of the Harlem Renaissance and began publishing them in
larger numbers buzzle,. "Harlem Renaissance." Buzzle.com. N.p., 29
9 2011. Web. 14 Mar 2013. Elington, Duke. "Harlem Renaissance."
Bio.com. Bio.com, 29 2 2013. Web. 14 Mar 2013..
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Literary Movement 20 th Century After American Civil War
Harlem, New York neighborhood Cultural Movement 1920s - early/mid
1930s Art/Literature hoped to uplift the race New Negro Movement
Flowering of Negro Literature Civic participation, political
equality, economic & cultural self-determination Democratic
whites terrorized black communities with mobs South North Created a
sense of African American identity that supported the later civil
rights movement. African American soldiers Harlem Hell Fighters
were not respected by nation Harlem stride style= new way of
playing piano Quote: Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life
is a broken winged bird that cannot fly Langston Hughes The Norton
Anthology of African American Literature, Norton, New York, 1997,
p. 931. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissa
nce."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renai ssance.
"http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom /harlem-renaissance."Harlem
Renaissance. Irvin Salceda P.2
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Harlem Renaissance Writers Langston Hughes- Poet, activist,
playwright, and columnist; inventor of jazz poetry Claude Mckay-
Writer and poet, works include Homes to Harlem, Banjo, and
Gingertown James Weldon Johnson- Major influence in movement, was
an author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, anthologist,
educator, lawyer, songwriter, and civil rights activist ; most
famous for song Lift Every Voice and Sing Fun Fact: Johnson
published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man anonymously, it
was his only novel. I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why
Democracy means, everybody but me. -Langston Hughes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho
rs/l/langston_hughes.html#4YOHxTfsX3xg5 QM8.99 Tommy Datz
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/
poets/g_l/johnson/life.htm