Harlem Renaissance

Writers during the Harlem Renaissance:

• Focused on African American experiences

• Used a style most popular in the early 1800s

• Wrote about white society and how it needed to change

How did the Harlem Renaissance affect white society?

• Whites began to appreciate African American writers and artists

• Whites prevented African American books from being sold in the South

• Whites did not know about the movement

What was the "most radical demand" made by women at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848?

• Demand for education to made available for all women

• A call for giving women separate legal status from their fathers

• Women getting the vote

The nickname given to the women of the 1920s that cut their hair short, wore make-up and often smoke cigarettes.

• Trapper

• Crapper

• Flapper

Name two famous people from the Harlem Renaissance.

• "Duke" Ellington

• Eddie Murphy

• Louis Armstrong

Marcus Garvey urged all African Americans living in the United States to?

• Move North

• Return to Africa

• Not vote

This was the artistic and literary movement that celebrated African American culture?

• The Renaissance

• Reconstruction

• The Harlem Renaissance

He was one of the most famous Harlem Renaissance poets, he wrote about the daily lives of working-class blacks?

• Langston Hughes

• "Duke" Ellington

• Howard Hughes