- The Harlem Renaissance movement happened in the 1920's and early 1930's.
- It was a cultural movement of African American art, literature, theater, politics, and music.
- It was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
- It is also known as the New Negro Movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance.
- It was the first time that publishers and critics took African American literature and art seriously.
- There was no common literary style or political ideology--this movement was held together by commitment to getting African American art recognized.
- Also, racial pride and desire for social and political equality bound them.
- During this movement about 16 writers published over 50 volumes.
- The literature from this period was read not only by the African American middle class, but the white book-buying public too.
- The successful black entertainers even moved downtown so that more white people could come visit.
- She was a singer and dancer.
- She moved to Paris, France.
- There she introduced many Europeans to African American culture.
- She became famous for a dance called the banana dance.
- She was the first African American to star in a major motion picture.
- Claude was a poet and writer.
- He was one of the first black authors to be popular among white people.
- His poems that told of injustice towards African Americans were sonnets.
- He traveled to Russia and France.
- His work was mostly at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance--inspiring others and setting the tone for it.
- She was a writer, anthropologist, and folklorist.
- Zora was the more significant and successful black woman writer for the first half of the 1900's.
- She grew up in the African American society in Eatonville, where she experienced a lot of culture that would want her to give that to the rest of the world.
- She did not go to school as a teenager, but went back at age 26 and pretended to be 16 and born in 1901. She pretended this was her real birth date for the rest of her life.
- She wrote the famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which my English class will soon start reading.
Sources:
Wintz, Cary DeCordova. "Harlem Renaissance." Microsoft® Student 2009 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2008.
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