The Harlem Renaissance

1. The Harlem Renaissance By: Joe Howard

2. The Harlem Renaissance • After the Civil War, African-Americans found a safe place to exploretheir new identities as freed people. They found it in Harlem. Jazz music,African-American fine art, and black literature were all absorbed into themainstream culture.

3. The Harlem Renaissance • The movement of the large amount of African Americans from the south to the north was called “The Great Migration.”

4. The Beginning of the Harlem Renaissance • The Harlem Renaissance started in 1910.

5. The Beginning of the Harlem Renaissance • In 1917 Hubert Harrison, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice. It was the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement".

6. The Harlem RenaissanceMusic • The “Harlem Stride Style” was created during the Harlem Renaissance.

7. The Harlem RenaissanceMusic • Jazz Music brought the blacks and whites together in the clubs, to listen to the musicians play.

8. The Harlem Renaissance • African Americans believed that literature, art, and music could help stop racism and stereotypes.

9. The Harlem Renaissance • Langston Hughes spoke for most of the writers and artists when he wrote in his essay “The NegroArtist and the RacialMountain” in 1926, that black artists needs to express themselves freely, no matter what the public thought.

10. The Harlem Renaissance • They had illusions to African American spirituals in their art. In their poetry, the used the structures of blues songs. The art help begin “Gospel Music”.

11. The Harlem RenaissanceReligion • In 1919, W.E.B. Dubois plans the first African Congress. This began dialogue related toAfrican unity and spiritual values.

12. The Harlem RenaissanceReligion -In 1921, Garvey organizes the African Orthodox Church. Located in Harlem, this religious creation fostered direct correlations to Orthodox Christianity.

13. The Harlem RenaissanceMajor Events • In 1919 the 369th Regiment marched up fifth avenue to Harlem.

14. The Harlem RenaissanceMajor Events • In 1920 the Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) Convention held at Madison Square Gaurden.

15. The Harlem Renaissance • In 1922 the first anti-lynching legislation was approved by The House of Representatives.

16. The Harlem RenaissanceMost Important People • W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, CounteeCulley, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer

17. The Harlem RenaissancePoem By Arna Bontemps Southern Mansion Poplars are standing there still as death and ghosts of dead men meet their ladies walking two by two beneath the shade and standing on the marble steps…..

18. The Harlem RenaissancePoem By:Gwendolyn Bennett I am weaving a song of waters,Shaken from firm, brown limbs,Or heads thrown back in irreverent mirth.My song has the ush sweetnessOf moist, dark lipsWhere hymns keep companyWith old forgotten banjo songs.Abandon tells youThat I sing the heart of raceWhile sadness whispersThat I am the cry of a soul. . . .

19. The Harlem Renaissance • 1935 marks the end of the Harlem Renaissance. It was mostly the result of Depression economics, but also in part due to the premature death of the patron A'Lelia Walker in 1934.

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