Five Minute Quick write…

1. Five Minute Quick write… Rules: Write a minimum of 5 sentences. Describe everything that you notice in the photo. Write until you are told to stop. Question: What do you see? What time period do you think this picture was taken in? Back up any assumptions with evidence from the image.

2. Harlem Renaissance 1919-1940’s

3. Renaissance – revival in the world of art and learning • Due to social and political anxieties that African Americans felt following World War I, many moved to urban areas located in the North. • Northern cities offered African Americans relief from the repressive attitudes of people in the South. • As a result of this shift, an era of social consciousness combined with the people’s desires to incorporate more leisure into their lives, a movement known as the New Negro movement was born. • The New Negro movement later became known as the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/african_american_4.html

4. Music of the Harlem Renaissance • Billy Holiday – The Very Thought of You • Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World

5. Art of the Harlem Renaissance The Builders - Jacob Armstead Lawrence Building More Stately Mansions – Aaron Douglas Gamin – Augusta Christine Fells Savage

6. Literature & Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance • Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri • Also lived in Kansas, Illinois, Ohio & Mexico • Attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, where he began writing poetry in the eighth grade Langston Hughes 1902-1967

7. Hughes • “By the time Hughes enrolled at Columbia University in New York, he had already launched his literary career with his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in the Crisis, edited by W E.B. De Bois. • “He had also committed himself both to writing and to writing mainly about African Americans.” • “Hughes was a major influence in the Harlem Renaissance.”