HARLEM RENAISSANCE PART 2

HARLEM RENAISSANCE PART 2

By Michael Stange

After WWI, throughout the country, mobs of White Americans were starting all out massacres of African Americans in areas where African Americans were successful economically.

While these riots lasted until the 1960s, the worst in history was the Tulsa Race "Riot".​

Race "Riots" = Massacres

Multiple Choice

What area was attacked during the Tulsa Race Massacre?

• Greenwood

• Greenville

• Greenwich

• Greenland

Multiple Choice

What was the nickname given to the area hit by the massacre?

• Black Wall Street

• Wall Street

• Oiland

• Beezer's

Multiple Choice

What was unique about Greenwood?

• It was the wealthiest black community in the country

• There was nothing unique about Greenwood

• They had a great sports team

Multiple Choice

Why was there a Black Wall Street?

• Discrimination kept most black communities separate

• They chose to live and work in that area

• There was no particular reason

• It was planned

The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the case.

Scopes worked with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to incriminate himself deliberately to set up the trial.

Many saw this law as a real challenge to education being about​ free and open discussion of important ideas.

John Scopes vs. Fundamentalism

Multiple Choice

In what year did the Scopes Trial take place?

• 1920
• 1925
• 1930
• 1935

Multiple Choice

Where did the Scopes Trial occur?

• Dayton, Tennessee
• Dayton, Ohio
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Indianapolis, Indiana

Multiple Choice

The trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools?

• reading
• biology
• religion
• evolution

Multiple Choice

Which scientist proposed the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?

• Leonardo DaVinci
• Charles Darwin
• Samuel Goldberg
• John Butler

Multiple Choice

Which organization put out an advertisement that they were looking for a defendant in a trial about the Butler Act?

• the ABA
• the WMCA
• the DMV
• the ACLU

Multiple Choice

John Scopes was found _________.

• innocent
• guilty

Jacob Lawrence

Hold fast to dreams  For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.​

Dreams

Langston Hughes​

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Aaron Douglas​

Multiple Choice

The Harlem Renaissance

• Occurred in Harlem, New York

• Took place in the 1920s

• Was a period of intellectual, artistic, and social explosion

• All of the answers are correct

Multiple Choice

Where is Harlem?

• New York

• Chicago

• Detroit

• San Francisco

Multiple Choice

During which decades did the Harlem Renaissance occur?

• 1900-1910

• 1920s and 1930s

• 1940s and 1950s

• late 1800s

Multiple Choice

Who was Louis Armstrong?

• famous African American artist

• famous African American painter

• famous African American musician

Multiple Choice

Who was Langston Hughes?

• famous African American author and poet

• famous African American musician

• famous African American artist

Multiple Choice

Who was Jacob Lawrence?

• famous African American author and poet

• famous African American musician

• famous African American artist

Multiple Select

How did the Harlem Renaissance influence the world? Click all that apply

• it only had an impact on the immediate area of New York

• it spread from the area of Harlem to other parts of the nation

• it not only influenced African Americans, but other cultures as well

Multiple Choice

In Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too"...what is the tone of the poem?

• angry

• humorous

• Optimistic-looks forward to the future

• scared

Fats Waller was a well-known jazz musician and piano player.

In 1926, Waller was kidnapped. Four men forced him into a car at gunpoint and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by Al Capone. Waller was ordered inside the building and told to play music and party until the party ended the next morning.​

The Best Story of the Jazz Age

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