PPT-The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance

African American culture began to flourish in the 1920s especially in Harlem a subsection of Manhattan in New York City This era of change and growth is referred to as the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance helped give a new vocabulary and dynamic to race relations in the United States. The Harlem Renaiss ance was in full bloom African American artists musicians and writers were pouring into this uptown Manhattan neighborhood They were filling Harlem with life and culture At the center of it all was jazz music And a central player Bulletin Board & . Programming Idea. Submitted by . Tamarah. . Roumayah. Resident Advisor. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Politicians.  . Condoleezza Rice. She was the first African American woman to serve as United States Secretary of State, and the first African American and the first woman to serve as the President’s National Security Advisor.. Take out your argument article. Be prepared to show it to me if you did not last week. Choose the article that you like the best, and take 5 minutes to re-read it . Write down in 1-2 sentences what the author did that made the article convincing. Hurston, . Zora. Neale. B. y. Jon. African-American . writer, b. . Notasulga. , Ala. She grew up in the pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla. and, moving north, graduated from Barnard College, where she studied with Franz Boas. Her placid childhood and privileged academic background are often cited as major reasons for her work's general lack of stress on racism, a characteristic so unlike such contemporaries as Richard Wright. An anthropologist and folklorist, Hurston collected African-American folktales in the rural South and sympathetically interpreted them in the collections Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938). A third volume of tales, Every Tongue Got to Confess, was discovered in manuscript and published in 2001. Hurston, a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was also the author of four novels including Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and the influential Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Her plays include the comedy Mule Bone (1931), written in collaboration with her friend Langston Hughes. I. The Great Migration. Between 1910 and 1920, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans uprooted themselves from their homes in the South to move into the big cities of the North in search of jobs.. Bulletin Board & . Programming Idea. Submitted by Tamarah Roumayah Resident Advisor. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Politicians.  . Condoleezza Rice. She was the first African American woman to serve as United States Secretary of State, and the first African American and the first woman to serve as the President’s National Security Advisor.. Maroki. . Ms. . Suleyman. . 1. st. hour. 3-21-11. Cab Calloway. Early Life. Cab Calloway was born in 1907 to a middle-class family in Rochester, New York.. When Cab was young, he enjoyed singing in church.. Pages 224-227. Terms-pages 225-227. Jazz – American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation. Symbolize – to represent, express, or identify by a symbol. Prevalence rate in Harlem is among the highest in the U.S. .: . #1 Reason kids miss school and are hospitalized!. As high as 30% compared to 8% in NYC, 4% in the rest of the country. African American and Hispanics, most affected. Warm-Up. 1. Restroom/Water. 2. Copy homework into agenda. 3. Make sure your name is on the Italian Renaissance Art Review…….give to letter B in your group……..6B please collect from every group…..thank you.. Q1. What is your biggest dream? . Explain in quadrant 2. Q2. The Harlem Renaissance & Effects. 1920s-1930s. Review…. Where is Harlem? . Renaissance . is like a “new beginning” or “resurgence”. Note: All other images are from Microsoft clip art. Why It’s Important. humanism- belief in the importance of people. Renaissance- . French word meaning “rebirth”. people . became interested in the world around them. The Renaissance will see a shift in art - from art purely for the sake of glorifying God and teaching Biblical and Catholic lessons to art for the sake of . also. glorifying human beings and their Earthly emotions, experiences, surroundings. . Duke Ellington is memorialized in this statue in Harlem, New York. Ellington was a major presence in the Harlem Renaissance and was famous for playing jazz, although he played other genres as well (classical, blues, and gospel).