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Alec Berryman

Tiller 7th

 

Honors English 10

Harlem Renaissance Powerpoint

Wintz, Cary D. Harlem Speaks: a Living History of the Harlem Renaissance. Naperville, IL: Source, 2007.

Print.

Notable Individuals

  Literature

o  Langston Hughes - American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.

o  Countee Cullen - Leading American poet.

o  Nella Larsen - American novelist.

o  Claude McKay - Jamaican-American writer and poet.

o  Zora Neale Hurston - American folklorist, anthropologist, and author.

o  Richard Wright - African-American author

  Musico  Eubie Blake - American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular

music.

o  Bessie Smith - Most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.

o  Louis Armstrong - American jazz trumpeter and singer.

o  Duke Ellington -American composer, pianist, and big band leader.

o  Ethel Waters - American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress.

  Arts

o  Aaron Douglas - African American painter.

o  Jacob Lawrence - American painter

o  Romare Bearden - African American artist and writer.

o  Josephine Baker - American dancer, singer, and actress.  Renaissance Men

o  W.E.B. Du Bois -Intellectual leader in the United States as a sociologist, historian, civil

rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

o  James Weldon Johnson - American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet,

anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist.

o  Paul Robeson - American concert singer, recording artist, athlete, and actor who

became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement.

  Poitics

o  Marcus Garvey - Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a

staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.

o  Alain Locke - American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts.

o  A. Philip Randolph - prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader

and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of 

Sleeping Car Porters.

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  The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the “Black Renaissance, was a period in African

American history that hugely impacted the social equality movement for the black community

  Many new organizations and groups were formed in Harlem

 In the areas of literature, music, dance, art, and politics, African Americans felt the urge andwere stimulated to their heritage and culture.