Harlem Renaissance

First important writer of the Harlem Renaissance

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Claude McKay

• Bessie Smith

• Babe Ruth

the "Empress of the Blues"

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Claude McKay

• Bessie Smith

• Ozzie Smith

First musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans

• Shuffle Along

• Cats

• Phantom of the Opera

• Rent

The site of a flowering of African American art

• Harlem

• Staten Island

• Los Angeles

• New Orleans

Author whose work featured African American women as central characters

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Claude McKay

• Bessie Smith

• Stephen King

What style of music was influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime?

• soul

• jazz

• country

• classical

The voting power of African Americans was seen in the election of

• W.E.B. DuBois

• John J. Parker

• Marcus Garvey

• Oscar DePriest

Claude McKay's poetry expressed two striking characteristics of Harlem Renaissance writing--a proud defiance and a bitter contempt of

• nationalism

• anarchists

• racism

• Communism

One of the NAACP's greatest political triumphs occurred in 1930 wiht the defeat of Judge John J. Parker's nomination to the

• US Supreme Court

• House of Representatives

• Senate

• Circuit Court

Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

• Langston Hughes

• Paul Robeson

• Duke Ellington

• Marcus Garvey