Harlem Renaissance

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Louis Armstrong helped revolutionize this genre of music during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Jazz

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This painting by Jacob Lawerence describes African Americans moving north to find jobs in heavy industries. This phrase was given to describe this "great" journey.

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The Great Migration

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Harlem is located in which major city?

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New York City, New York

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The Crisis was a ____________ that helped jump start many Harlem artists, poets, and songwriters' careers.

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magazine

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How does Ella Fitzgerald describe the atmosphere in Harlem in "Holiday in Harlem"?

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Inclusive of everyone

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What was the "New Negro?"

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A new sense of identity and dignity among blacks

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Jacob Lawerence's painting Bar and Grill depicts which segregation laws as made famous by Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896?

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Jim Crow Laws, Jim Crow

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When the Great Migration occurred, what happened as a result politically? Options: heightened racism and Civil War, rising literacy and the formation of civil rights groups, falling literacy and a moral decline

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rising literacy and the formation of civil rights groups