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)