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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

What was the Harlem Renaissance?. Industrialization attracts African Americans to northern cities. Harlem, in New York City, became a center for the expanding black middle class. An Explosion of Black Culture in Harlem: Which of the arts did the Harlem Renaissance affect?.

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

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  1. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

  2. Industrialization attracts African Americans to northern cities. • Harlem, in New York City, became a center for the expanding black middle class.

  3. An Explosion of Black Culture in Harlem: Which of the arts did the Harlem Renaissance affect?

  4. Painting and Sculpture

  5. JAZZ Count Basie

  6. Duke Ellington

  7. Billie Holiday

  8. LITERATURE Langston Hughes

  9. Countee Cullin For A Lady I Know She even thinks that Up in heaven Her class lies late and snores. While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores

  10. Zora Neale Hurston

  11. What were Jim Crow Laws?

  12. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.

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