20.3

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

McKay

A poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement and wrote the poem "If We Must Die" after the Chicago riot of 1919.

Cotton Club

A speak easy where blacks played but could not be apart of the audience. One of the most famous Harlem nightspots.

Jazz

A style of dance music popular in the 1920s

Paul Robeson

African American actor and singer who promoted African American rights and left-wing causes

Bessie Smith

African American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem Reniassance. BLUES

Hughes

African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance.

Armstrong

Black jazz musician

Duke Ellington

Born in Chicago middle class. moved to Harlem in 1923 and began playing at the cotton club. Played at speakeasies and clubs.

President Coolige

Deported Garvey to Jamaica

Marcus Garvey

Negro nationalism

DePriest

The first African American representative in Congress from a Northern state.

Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

UNIA

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Great migration

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

Blues

style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound

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