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“Sec. 21.4 Notes”
Topic: The Harlem Renaissance
2/6/1225
Causes • Great Migration• Need to be heard
(politically)• Emerging
educated/middle class supports A.A. art, music, & literature
• Emerging white interest in A.A. culture (jazz)
HarlemRenaissance
Causes and Effects of the Harlem Renaissance
Effects• Creation of an African American
voice• Celebration of A.A. culture
& life• Hughes, Armstrong,
Ellington become American icons
Langston Hughes“HARLEM”
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Zora Neale Hurston
Author and anthropologist
Louis Armstrong