African American Culture and Politics

First important writer of Harlem Renaissance

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Bessie Smith

• Harlem Jones

the "Empress of the Blues"

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Bessie Smith

• Claude McKay

• Harlem Smith

the first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans

• Lord of the Rings

• Shuffle Along

• The Wizard of OZ

• Sound of Music

author whose work featured African American women as central characters

• Bessie Smith

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Harlem Jones

the site of a flowering of African American arts

• New Orleans

• Chicago

• Harlem

• Detroit

What style of music was influenced by Dixieland and ragtime

• classical

• country

• jazz

• soul

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

• anarchists

• Communists

• nationalism

• racism

The flowering of African American arts in the 1920's became known as the

• Glory Days

• Great Awakening

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

The Cotton Club was a

• Chicago speakeasy where gangsters, artists, and politicians congregated

• fictitious nightclub featured in the famous picture The Jazz Singer

• Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start

• Hollywood nightspot frequented by stars of the silver screen

The Universal Negro Improvement Association was formed to

• elect African Americans to Congress

• promote black pride and unity

• promote integration

• protest the horrors of lynching