Harlem RenaissanceBy: 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?

• African Americans weren't being accepted as an equal to white Americans.

• They wanted there voice to be heard.

Growth of Harlem

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

 

Cross My old man's a whit old man And my old mother's black.If I ever cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If I ever cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell,I'm sorry for that evil wishAnd now I wish her wellMy 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 males treated black females poorly

 

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

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.

Social, Economic, Or Political?

• Social!• Because blacks did not want to be accepted as a second

class under whites. • They wanted equality.

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