PPT-Harlem

By Langston Hughes Interpreting imagery Langston Hughes Historical Background Harlem was written in 1951 Addresses the limitations on the access to the American Dream for African Americans . 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. 1920’s. Write the main idea of each slide on your notes.. Post WWI. Following WWI (the war to end all wars), talented young authors, some expatriates in France, wrote about their feelings of disillusionment and alienation. A sense of rebellion developed and the Victorian idea of decency was considered hypocritical.  Writers began to write frankly about sexuality. . By: Trent Hayden, Avery Henderson, Logan . Raulie. Introduction. Today we will talk about the Harlem Globetrotters history, there losses, their players, and how they help around the world.. The Harlem Globetrotters History. Fall Survey Results . Number of Respondents and their knowledge. *Total of 457 respondents in over three months. . Community Board 8: 10463, 10471. Community Board 7: 10458, 10467. Community Board 5: 10453. 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. The Great Migration. “Push” Factors:. Reduced opportunities for employment, political participation and better quality of life due to Reconstruction failure and 1896 . Plessy vs. Ferguson. Supreme Court decision. Women. Women began to demonstrate new independence & assertiveness . Women began to drink & smoke in public. Began reading . Sigmund Freud. Adopted the look of the “. flapper. ”. Short dresses. . Jim Crow was a minstrel show character—a bumbling fool played by a white performer in “blackface” makeup.. By the 20. th. century, everyone understood that “Jim Crow” meant laws that separated the races. 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”. 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. Who were the two presidents that followed after Woodrow Wilson? Who was the president that promised normalcy and why was this promise so important to Americans? . LEQ: What are the characteristics of the Roaring 20s? . French Chef Restaurant Harlem Kfir Ben-Ari is a first-rate French Food Chef from New York, Harlem. His Restaurant RDV-Rendezvous Harlem is famous for its authentic French taste of food, foie gras, drinks and cocktails. RDV-Rendezvous Harlem 2072 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10026 Phone:- (212) - 222- 8952 Email:- info@rdv-nyc.com Url:- http://www.rdv-nyc.com/