Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, and Garvey in the 1920s

Fill-in-the-Blank flashcards covering Harlem Renaissance, jazz's global expansion, key figures, Prohibition, and the Red Summer events of 1919.

The Harlem Renaissance was the explosion of African-American art, literature, and music in the __.

1920s

Jazz music was born in __.

New Orleans

Louis Armstrong joined King Oliver's __ Band.

Creole Jazz Band

Jazz followed African-American migrants along the __ River.

Mississippi

The Chicago Defender, at its peak, had a subscription of about __.

500,000

The Harlem Hellfighters' 369th Infantry Band was led by Lt. James Reese Europe and introduced jazz to __ audiences.

European

Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago in 1922 and joined King Oliver's __ Band.

Creole Jazz Band

In 1925, Armstrong's solo projects featured his distinctive singing.

scat

The mid-to-late 1920s saw jazz rise as a dance music, including the dance called the __.

Lindy-hop

Another popular Roaring Twenties dance was the __.

Charleston

At New York's Cotton Club and Roseland Ballroom, Duke Ellington helped define jazz as the of the era.

soundtrack

The talented Kansas City pianist who helped define its swing style was __.

Count Basie

The Harlem Hellfighters introduced jazz to __ audiences during the war.

European

Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which established over __ branches in 38 states and 41 countries.

1,000

In August 1920, crowds of more than __ supporters packed Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall to hear Garvey.

25,000

The UNIA's six-thousand-seat headquarters in Harlem was called __.

Liberty Hall

The Negro World, UNIA's newspaper, claimed a subscription of __.

50,000

Garvey was born in __, Jamaica, in 1887.

St. Ann's Bay

Garvey urged a philosophy of self-sufficiency and racial pride and called on Black Americans to turn to Africa, with the slogan ' Africa for the Africans' echoing nationalist proclamations of Irish and Indian activists and arguing self-determination applied outside of __.

Europe

Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in __ and spent four years in federal prison before being deported in 1927.

1923

The Red Summer, described by James Weldon Johnson, occurred in __.

1919

The Elaine Massacre occurred in Phillips County, __.

Arkansas

More than __ African-American men served in the U.S. military during World War I.

400,000

The Volstead Act took effect on January , 1920.

17

The Eighteenth marked the Prohibition era.

Amendment

In 1928, Stalin declared jazz as an expression of .

degenerate bourgeoisie-capitalism

The advent of electrical recording occurred in .

1925

By the end of the 1920s, jazz had become a major cultural and a significant export.

exports

The Red Summer included a total of lynchings in 1919.

76

The Elaine Massacre involved more than African-American deaths over five days.

200