Harlem Renaissance

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

• Cultural Explosion of African Americans
• Social Explosion of African Americans
• Artistic Explosion of African Americans
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had which person for a leader?

• James Weldon Johnson
• Marcus Garvey
• Woodrow Wilson
• Duke Ellington

James Weldon Johnson did what?

• Took 10,00 protesters to the street to have black prejudice removed and equality for all races and colors
  
• Wanted a totally different society for black prejudice.

Marcus Garvey was a leader of what organization?

• UNIA
• NAACP
• PETA
• IBEW

What was the Great Migration?

• A great movement of African Americans from the north to the south
• A great movement of Bootleggers from the east to the west
• A great movement of African Americans from the south to to north
• None of These

Why did African Americans Migrate?

• To Escape Discrimination and Look for Better Jobs
• To Escape the Winter
• To live in a big city
• All of these

Louis Armstrong did what?

• Convinced African Americans to create a new society all to themselves
• Became the most influential musician during the Harlem Renaissance or Jazz Era
• Painted Influential Paintings of African American Subject Matter
• Wrote Literature

This guy was not as influential as Louis Armstrong, but he was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra.

• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• James Weldon Johnson
• Calvin Coolidge

The Empress of Blues (Bessie Smith) sang which type of music?

• Blues
• Opera 
• Country
• All

Who was the Bass Singer and Actor that was involved with the civil rights movement?

• Paul Robeson
• Aaron Douglas
• Marcus Garvey
• None