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Lesson #5: 1921-1929 The Jazz Age

Chapter 7: IMPACT (textbook) pages 281-315
Objective(s)
1. What is the Harlem Renaissance?
2. What are some changes you think have lasted from this movement?
3. Why do we Call this a Renaissance?
Vocab Words
The Harlem Renaissance Jazz NAACP
Renaissance

The Great Migration Black Nationalism Marcus Garvey Langston Hues

Blues Web debois

Poem: I, Too
Video: I, Too by Langston Hughes, read by Willie Jennings
Written: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Too
Your thoughts on the poem:
I think the poem is trying to say even though he is a darker tone of skin he still an American
and even though he might be discriminated he will still eat well and be strong for until he
would be accepted

Define the Highlighted Terms In YOUR own WORDS:

The Harlem Renaissance: The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African
American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem,
Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.

Renaissance: a revival of the arts such as art dance music etc.. During a time period.666

NAACP: The National Asslociation for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization
in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African
Americans

The Great Migration: The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the
Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United
States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970

Black Nationalism: Black nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses
the belief that black people are a race, and which seeks to develop and maintain a black racial and
national identity.

Marcus Garvey: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist,
entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself
Provisional President of Africa.

Langston Hues: Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem
Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life
and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily
African American neighborhood.

Blues: Blues music is characterized by repeating chords and 1920s blues focused on a twelve bar
structure. Songs would often chronicle the singer's personal troubles and the daily racial problems
associated with being African American in the prejudiced and segregated South.

W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist,
historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew
up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community

The Harlem Renaissance

Find Two pictures from this movement

in Harlem Why do we call this a Renaissance
Contents. The Harlem Renaissance was the
development of the Harlem neighborhood in New
York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early
20th Century and the subsequent social and
artistic explosion that resulted.

Where does this movement start

Pic information:
4 jazz performers posing for a picture
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of
the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a
Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century
and the subsequent social and artistic explosion
that resulted.

Does Writing push this movement forward?

The Harlem Renaissance brought along a new
creative energy for African American literature.
This literary cultural movement was to reject the
traditional American standards of writing and
discover and utilize their own style of writing to
signify their cultural identity.

Pic information
a jazz performance durimg the1920s

The Arts

Link for some pieces of art

https://www.nga.gov/learn/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/harlem-renaissance
.html
Find four Pictures that represent the
following areas of the Arts and put into
the boxes
In each section find an important piece or event
from the Harlem Renaissance that corresponds to
Music, Theater, Poetry, and Art. In your own words
describe it and if it had a lasting impact on the arts.
Music:
The music that percolated in and then boomed
out of Harlem in the 1920s was jazz, often played
at speakeasies offering illegal liquor. Jazz
became a great draw for not only Harlem
residents, but outside white audiences also
Theater:
The public theatres were three stories high and
built around an open space at the centre. Usually
polygonal in plan to give an overall rounded
effect, although the Red Bull and the first Fortune
were square.
Poetry:
The most well-known poet of the Harlem
Renaissance was Langston Hughes. He has
served as an inspiration for generations of poets.
Some of the other well-known poets of that era
include Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James Weldon
Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and
Arna Bontemps
Art:
The artists associated with the Harlem
Renaissance aimed to take control over
representations of their own people, instead of
accepting the stereotypical depictions by white
people. They asserted pride in black life and
identity, and rebelled against inequality and
discrimination.