The Harlem Renaissance

Who was the political leader that founded potent philosophies of black self-determination and unity among black communities?

• Marcus Garvey
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks

When African Americans began to move from the rural South to the urban North, this was called what?

• The Great Awakening
• The Great Migration
• The Great Pumpkin
• The Trail of Tears

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When the Great Migration occurred, what happened as a result?

• heightened racism and Civil War
• rising literacy and the formation of civil rights groups
• falling literacy and a moral decline

Who turned to blues for a poetic form derived from and answering to the desires, needs, and aesthetic sensibilities of the black working class?

• Langston Hughes
• Ella Johnson
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Maya Angelou

Who was a famous African American poet who was popular during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Langston Hughes
• Bessie Smith
• John Legand
• Duke Ellington

Who became the highest paid African American entertainer in the country in the 1920s?

• Bessie Smith
• Langston Hughes
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Booker T. Washington

Harlem is a neighborhood in 

• New York City
• New Orleans
• New Jersey
• Africa

The Harlem Renaissance was remarkable because

• it was the first time African-Americans published their art
• African-American artists were taken seriously 
• So many African-Americans moved to that one neighborhood
• That's when the first African-American won an Oscar

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The Harlem Renaissance refers to:

• A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
• A struggle for civil rights by the NAACP
• A program to promote African-American owned businesses
• A population increase in Harlem during the 1920s

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The Harlem Renaissance took place during what decade? 

• 1860's
• 1880's
• 1900's
• 1920's

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