The Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes invented a literary art form called what?

• Jazz Poetry

• Stride Style

• Reconstruction

• Poetry Beats

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

• 1920s-1930s

• 1940s-1950s

• 1800s-1860s

• 1980s-2000s

What was "The Harlem Renaissance?"

• A revival of African American art, theatre, politics, and scholarship that stemmed out of Harlem, Manhattan, and New York City.

• A cultural movement fighting for equal rights among labor workers.

• A time in politics that ruled every school should be equally funded.

• A movement which started in Italy that revives classic and Greek arts in the modern age.

The is the definition of the word "Renaissance?"

• A renewed interest in something

• A push for education

• A movement that separated church from state

• To remove old knowledge with new

Which best describes jazz music during the Harlem Renaissance?

• Jazz ignored many musical conventions with its rhythms and improvisation.

• Only African Americans came to watch jazz performances in Harlem.

• Jazz musicians only performed the same music.

• Young white Americans did not support jazz musicians.

Langston Hughes is known for a series of poems about:

• Dreams

• Tigers

• Home

• Nature

One theme of Harlem Renaissance art and literature is

• hope for a better future

• focus on the supernatural

• guilt over the past

• escape into imaginary words

Harlem Renaissance artists/writers wanted to depict

• the everyday lives of middle and working class African Americans

• the lives of the rich and successful

• the corruption of the city

• the horrors of life on the battlefields of WWI

The movement of African American citizens from the South to Northern cities was known as

• The Great Migration

• Segregation

• Northern Flight

• Reconstruction

Who wrote the poem "To One Coming North"?

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Langston Hughes

• W.E.B. DuBois