WorksheetsThe Harlem Renaissance
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Harlem is a New York neighborhood located on ___________ island.
Staten
Long
Ellis
Manhattan
African Americans in the south fled to the north for all these reasons EXCEPT:
To avoid segregation
To start plantations
To work in industries
To create a new life
W.E.B Du Bois co-founded which program?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Civil Rights Movement
This magazine corrected newspaper stereotypes of African Americans. The magazine is still published today.
Fire!!
The Crisis
Times
People
Louis Armstrong became famous for playing the trumpet, which he first learned to play…
at school
in a juvenile home
on the streets
at his house
"Empress of the Blues” was a nickname for:
Louis Armstrong
Elizabeth Smith
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
Who wrote “Harlem Shadows”?
Countee Cullen
Claude McKay
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
This person was mainly involved in the publication of the magazine, Fire!!
Zora Neale Hurston
W.E.B. Du Bois
Bessie Smith
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes’ poem, ___________, is known for reflecting on African life and heritage.
I, Too
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Weary Blues
Harlem
The Harlem Renaissance sought to end in this year:
1930
1934
1935
1937
The Stock Market crashed on this day:
October 29, 1927
October 23, 1929
September 29, 1929
October 29, 1929
This pianist wrote “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and had famous comedic radio performances:
Fats Waller
Paul Robeson
Aaron Douglas
Claude McKay
This singer and performer wrote the song “Minnie the Moocher”:
John Steinbeck
Cab Calloway
Augusta Savage
Louis Armstrong
This person was a tap dancer and actor who performed on Broadway:
Cab Calloway
Walt Whitman
Aaron Douglas
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
This international activist performed in “The Emperor Jones” and “Othello”
Countee Cullen
Paul Robeson
Zora Neale Hurston
Fats Waller
This painter and graphic artist played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance:
Augusta Savage
Fats Waller
Aaron Douglas
Louis Armstrong
She was a sculptor and influential activist:
Zora Neale Hurston
Bessie Smith
Eleanor Roosevelt
Augusta Savage
Although “New Negro” is a late nineteenth century term, it was not until the 1920s that this label gained _________ as a description for middle-class African Americans.
pinnacle
currency
agency
onset
The Harlem Renaissance describes the period roughly between the end of World War I and the _____ of the Great Depression.
onset
unprecedented
swanky
advent
An influential form of African American music that rose to ______ during the 1920s was the blues.
agency
prominence
turbulent
currency
