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    The Great Migration saw half a million African Americans move from the rural South to Northern cities like Harlem during and after WWI to escape poverty and Jim Crow laws. This led to a cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s-1930s where African American artists and writers were recognized and supported by white patrons, allowing them to publish and display their works. Key figures included poets Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston and artist Aaron Douglas.

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    The Great Migration saw half a million African Americans move from the rural South to Northern cities like Harlem during and after WWI to escape poverty and Jim Crow laws. This led to a cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s-1930s where African American artists and writers were recognized and supported by white patrons, allowing them to publish and display their works. Key figures included poets Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston and artist Aaron Douglas.

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    HST312A: Modern U.S.

    History | Unit 6 | Lesson 5: The Harlem Renaissance

    Lesson Answer Key


    The Harlem Renaissance
    Read: Reading Guide
    1. What was the Great Migration?
    when half a million African Americans moved from the rural South to the cities of the North during and just
    after World War I
    2. Why did the Great Migration occur?
    Most African Americans moved in hopes of escaping poverty and the oppression of Jim Crow laws.
    3. Why did African American newcomers to the North cluster in all- African American
    neighborhoods such asHarlem?
    White landlords refused to rent to African Americans.
    4. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
    an African American cultural movement in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s
    5. Life in Harlem offered artists and writers the possibility of recognition—of getting their paintings and
    sculptures displayed in galleries, and their poems and stories published in magazines. Also, living in
    Harlem brought them into contact with prominent white New Yorkers—book publishers and wealthy
    philanthropists—who supported African American equality and were eager to sponsor new
    developments in the arts.
    6. Identify leaders of the Harlem Renaissance by matching the name to the correct description.
    A. the fiction writer who traveled to New York to take part
    E 1. James Weldon Johnson in the new literary movement and cofounded the
    magazine titled Fire!!
    B. an artist who produced illustrations for magazines such
    D 2. Claude McKay as Fire!! and The Crisis and a series of oil paintings
    called Aspects of Negro Life
    C. an author who combined poetry and poetic prose to
    G 3. Countee Cullen depict the lives of farmers in Georgia as well as city
    dwellers in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
    F 4. Langston Hughes D. the first important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, he
    published a volume of pomes titled Harlem Shadows
    E. president of the National Association for the
    C 5. Jean Toomer Advancement of Colored People and author of the poem
    “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
    F. a poet who began writing poetry celebrating his African
    A 6. Zora Neale Hurston heritage as well as the lives of contemporary African
    Americans. In “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” he used
    long free-verse lines in the style of Walt Whitman.
    G. a poet who wrote elegant verse in traditional forms,
    H 7. Palmer Hayden expressing the conflict he felt between his racial identity
    and his love for European culture
    B 8. Aaron Douglas H. an artist who depicted Harlem residents going about
    their everyday activities and African American folklore.

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