WorksheetsHarlem Renaissance
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2hrs 44mins
Louis Armstrong helped revolutionize this genre of music during the Harlem Renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE
Gospel
Jazz
Folk
Rhythm
This painting by Jacob Lawerence describes African Americans moving north to find jobs in heavy industries. This phrase was given to describe this "great" journey.
(a)
Harlem is located in which major city?
(a)
Park Bench - Poem by Langston Hughes
1 I live on a park bench.
2 You, Park Avenue.
3 Hell of a distance
4 Between us two.
5 I beg a dime for dinner-
6 You got a butler and maid.
7 But I'm wakin' up!
8 Say, ain't you afraid
9 That I might, just maybe,
10 In a year or two,
11 Move on over
12 To Park Avenue?
The speaker of the poem is conveying what?
The difference between sad and happy
The difference between locations
The difference in inequality
The difference between living life
These three organizations for furthering the well being for African Americans were all hardhearted in Harlem
NAACP
National Urban League
Universal Negro Improvement Association
AFL-CIO
Colored National Trade Union
The Crisis was a (a) that helped jump start many Harlem artists, poets, and songwriters' careers.
Listen to Ella Fitzgerald's Holiday in Harlem. How does she describe the atmosphere in Harlem?
https://youtu.be/1Eqk6nUtU_E?t=193
Inclusive of everyone
Celebration of the renessiance
A divide between race
A somber message played in an upbeat rhythm
Jacob Lawerence's painting Bar and Grill depicts which segregation laws as made famous by Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896?
(a)
When the Great Migration occurred, what happened as a result politically?
heightened racism and Civil War
rising literacy and the formation of civil rights groups
falling literacy and a moral decline
