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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance. By: Jake Carney, Brandon Hill. Harlem Renaissance. It started in the late 1910's. It was an African American literacy and artistic movement. It was were the voice of the African American was heard. What caused the Harlem Renaissance?.

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Harlem Renaissance

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  1. Harlem Renaissance By: Jake Carney, Brandon Hill

  2. Harlem Renaissance • It started in the late 1910's. • It was an African American literacy and artistic movement. • It was were the voice of the African American was heard.

  3. What caused the Harlem Renaissance? • African Americans weren't being accepted as an equal to white Americans. • They wanted there voice to be heard.

  4. Growth of Harlem • Moved north during the great migration. • night clubs and jazz lured intellectuals to Harlem.

  5. Cross My old man's a whit old man And my old mother's black. If I ever cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If I ever cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder were I'm going to die, being neither white nor black?                   -Langston Hughes Whites were economically better off were blacks were left in poverty. White malestreated black females poorly

  6. Themes of Inteuectuals • Langston Hughes       -Personal life, his travels, his involvement in radical and protest movements, and his interest in Africa •  Zora Neale       -African American life and Slavery history

  7. Harlem Rnaisance on American Culture. • African American's expressed themselves in their own unique voices and new literature. • A.K.A there voices were heard.

  8. Social, Economic, Or Political? • Social! • Because blacks did not want to be accepted as a second class under whites. • They wanted equality.

  9. Work Cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance • https://www.google.com/search?q=harlem+renaissance&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&safe=active • http://www.barewalls.com/pv-558416_The-Harlem-Renaissance.html • Youtube.com

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