English 1 - The Harlem Renaissance

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The famous figures of the Harlem Renaissance and their works.

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Harlem Renaissance
A period of cultural richness in the arts, music, and literature during the 1920s by African Americans in Harlem, New York.
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Langston Hughes
African American poet who wrote poems like "Harlem", "I, Too" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
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Claude McKay
Poet who wrote "If We Must Die" and "Tropics of NY".
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Countee Cullen
Wrote "Incident".
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Jacob Lawrence
1920's painter, most famous paintings were of the Great Migration.
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Romare Bearden
One of some famous African American visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Aaron Douglas
A Harlem Renaissance painter whose work celebrates African American versatility and adaptability, depicting people in a variety of settings.
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Louis Armstrong
Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.
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Duke Ellington
African American jazz pianist and composer of the Harlem Renaissance.
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W.E.B. DuBois
Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.
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James Weldon Johnson
Poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary
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Renaissance
rebirth
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
A precursor to the Harlem Renaissance; first African American poet.
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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
A civil rights organization (founded in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois and James Weldon Johnson) that fights for racial inequality.
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"Mother to Son", "Harlem", and "Dreams".
Three poems by Hughes
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"If We Must Die" and "Tropics of NY"
Two poems by McKay
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"Incident" and "To the Swimmer"
Two poems by Cullen
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