The Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

A gifted African-American poet, novelist, and playwright, who became one of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the United States

Jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

The Harlem Renaissance focuses on which groups artistic accomplishments?

African Americans in 1920s Harlem New York

Activist

a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.

social movement

a widely shared demand for change in some aspect of the social or political order

Black Lives Matter Movement

an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people.

miscegenation laws

laws forbidding people of different races from marrying. Abolished by the US Supreme Court in 1967

What are Jim Crow laws?

laws that separate races

The Great Migration

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Lynching

putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob

Segregation

separation of the races