Harlem Renaissance

What type of music was popularized during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Jazz

• Folk

• Country

• Rock

One of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry, poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm." Significant works include "I, Too," "Let America be America Again."

• Langston Hughes

• Duke Ellington

• Aaron Douglas

• W. E. B. Du Bois

The jazz and swing singer that sang “Strange Fruit,” and “God Bless the Child.”

• Billie Holiday

• Bessie Smith

• Augusta Savage

• Zora Neale Hurston

Writer, anthropologist, and filmmaker. Wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled all across the South collecting folk tales, songs & prayers of Black southerners..

• Billie Holiday

• Bessie Smith

• Augusta Savage

• Zora Neale Hurston

What led up to the Harlem Renaissance?

• The Civil War

• World War II

• The American Revolution

• World War I

The Harlem Renaissance took place during what decade? 

• 1860's

• 1880's

• 1900's

• 1920's

During which decades did the Harlem Renaissance occur?

• 1900-1910

• 1920s and 1930s

• 1940s and 1950s

• late 1800s

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that only happened in Harlem, New York.  

• True

• False

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A painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance. His illustrations addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States.

• Langston Hughes

• Duke Ellington

• Aaron Douglas

• W. E. B. Du Bois

The first African American woman to open her own art gallery in America. Created a 16-foot sculpture for the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Queens, N.Y.

• Billie Holiday

• Bessie Smith

• Augusta Savage

• Zora Neale Hurston