U.S. History Ch. 11 Section 5

Popular jazz trumpeter of the 1920s

• Marcus Garvey
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Zora Neale Hurston

Collected and published folk tales of her native Florida

• Marcus Garvey
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Zora Neale Hurston

The most militant of the Harlem Renaissance writers

• Marcus Garvey
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Claude McKay

Popular blues singer of the 1920s

• Marcus Garvey
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Claude McKay

Jamaican-born African American who organized  a "Back to Africa" movement

• Marcus Garvey
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Claude McKay

Outpouring of African American culture

• Marcus Garvey
• Harlem Renaissance
• Bessie Smith
• Claude McKay

Why did so many African Americans migrate north throughout the 1920s?

• for the milder climate
• for a chance at a better future
• to save money
• to serve in the military

Jazz was

• a musical style created by southern plantation owners.
• a style of art created by African American activists.
• a fashion style that came and went quickly.
• an American hybrid of African American and European music forms.

The literature of the Harlem Renaissance 

• explored the origins of jazz.
• explored the pains and joys of being black in America.
• is largely forgotten today.
• argued for the separation of races.

The sense of group identity created by the Harlem Renaissance 

• formed a basis for later progress for blacks in America.
• was lost by the end of the 1920s.
• enabled African Americans to form their own nation.
• ended discrimination against blacks in America.