The Harlem Renaissance
40% of all black people in America in 1920s.
5 million African Americans
A person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.
Activist
A jazz and blues singer who travelled across the country and worked with Ma Rainey and Louis Armstrong.
Bessie Smith
An international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people.
Black Lives Matter Movement
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.
Booker T. Washington
A famous nightclub where most of the musicians and dancers during the Harlem Renaissance performed.
Cotton Club
A style of dance music popular in the 1920s.
Jazz
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan
A gifted African-American poet, novelist, and playwright, who became one of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the United States.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
A trumpet player and singer from New Orleans and who is one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time.
Louis Armstrong
Putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob.
Lynching
Laws forbidding people of different races from marrying. Abolished by the US Supreme Court in 1967.
Miscegenation laws
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
Another name given to the Harlem Renaissance.
New Negro Movement
Separation of the races.
Segregation
A widely shared demand for change in some aspect of the social or political order.
Social movement
Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920.
The Great Migration
African Americans in 1920s Harlem New York.
The Harlem Renaissance focuses on which group's artistic accomplishments?
Founded the NAACP; Wrote "The Souls of Black Folks".
W. E. B. Du Bois
Laws that separate races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
