17.6 - The Harlem Renaissance

1. Between 1910-20 hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved north in an event known as the:

• Northern Movement
• Great Migration
• Harlem Renaissance
• Push Forward

2. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was led by:

• James Weldon Johnson
• Marcus Garvey
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Claude McKay

3. Led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the "Back to Africa" movement:

• Paul Robeson
• Marcus Garvey
• Bessie Smith
• W.E.B. DuBois

4. Two writers of the Harlem Renaissance:

• Marcus Garvey and Duke Ellington
• Paul Robeson and Louis Armstrong
• Joe "King" Oliver and Aaron Douglas
• Clause McKay and Langston Hughes

5. His performance in Shakespeare’s Othello was widely acclaimed:

• Cab Calloway
• Langston Hughes
• Paul Robeson
• W.C. Handy

6. Created in New Orleans, became the music of the Harlem Renaissance:

• Blues
• Jazz
• Classical
• Motown

7. Perhaps the most famous of Harlem's nightclubs:

• The Cotton Club
• Club Underground
• The Side Speakeasy
• The Lime Light

8. Female blues singer, probably the most outstanding vocalist of the 1920s:

• Billie Holiday
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Bessie Smith
• Lena Horne

9. One of the most important and influential musicians in the history of Jazz:

• Muddy Waters
• Louis Armstrong
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Claude McKay

10. African-American painters and sculptors also contributed their talents to the Harlem Renaissance.

• True
• False