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Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance

A renewal and flourishing of black literary and musical culture during the years after World War I in the Harlem section of New York City; unofficially spanned from 1919 until the early or mid 1930s.

Alain Locke

U.S. educator and author; published an anthology called "New Negro Movement," which became an early name for the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem

A section of New York City, in the NE part of Manhattan.

African-American

A black American of African descent.

Caribbean

Descending from or pertaining to the Caribs, the Lesser Antilles, or the Caribbean Sea and its islands.

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Great Migration

The movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. In NY, set the stage for the Harlem Renaissance.

Hubert Harrison

The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement."

Harlem Stride Style

A new method of piano playing which emerged during the Harlem Renaissance, bridging the gap between the poor and the socially elite African Americans in Harlem.

jazz

Music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, melodic freedom and a wide ranging harmonic idiom.

National Urban League

A nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.

The Crisis

A monthly journal of the NAACP.

Langston Hughes

Noted Harlem Renaissance novelist, playwright and poet.

Zora Neale Hurston

Noted Harlem Renaissance author, playwright and folklorist; author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Paul Robeson

Noted Harlem Renaissance singer and actor.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Noted Harlem Renaissance educator, activist, political leader and writer.

Marcus Garvey

Harlem-based Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S.

The Apollo

One of the oldest and most famous music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers.

Louis Armstrong

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

Count Basie

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer.

Cab Calloway

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz bandleader and singer.

Duke Ellington

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

Ella Fitzgerald

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz singer.

Dizzy Gillespie

Noted Harlem Renaissance jazz trumpeter and composer.