Ch 5 Lesson 2- Roaring 20s

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

• The period when more than six million African Americans migrated out of the South.

• The integration of previously all white neighborhoods and schools.

• the explosion of a new urban black culture that sought to redefine itself through music, art, and literature

• The explosive race riots that erupted to segregation and racial oppression.

African Americans fled from the South in pursuit of

• jobs, higher wages, better benefits, bigger cities

• jobs, higher wages, escape racism, better education

• jobs, higher wages, more hospitable climate, escape slavery

• Jobs, higher wages, escape slavery, better education

Which of the following was a major contribution to American popular culture made by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance?

• classical music

• jazz music

• rock n roll music

• country western music

African American jazz composer and pianist in the Harlem Renaissance

• Al Capone

• Langston Hughes

• Red Scare

• Duke Ellington

Artist that was known for their paintings of urban (city) settings, and later the deserts of the Southwest.

• Georgia O'Keefe

• Jacob Lawrence

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Aaron Copland.

Author that wrote about the fast-ace lifestyle of the 1920s and the newness of the Jazz Age. Most famous book is The Great Gatsby.

• Langston Hughes

• Jacob Lawrence

• George Gershwin

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author that wrote books about the struggles of migrant workers and the struggles faced by the poor working class. Most famous book is The Grapes of Wrath.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Langston Hughes

• John Steinbeck

• Duke Ellington

TWO American composers that wrote music that reminded people of U.S. landscapes. One wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" and the other guy wrote "Appalachian Spring."

• George Gershwin

• Duke Ellington

• Louis Armstrong

• Aaron Copland

Painter who illustrated African Americans moving to the Northeast and Midwest during the Great Migration.

• Bessie Smith

• Langston Hughes

• Jacob Lawrence

• Georgia O'Keefe

Poet that wrote about the struggles African Americans faced in the United States. Most famous poem is "Dreams."

• Langston Hughes

• Jacob Lawrence

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• John Steinbeck