1) What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?
Af Am begin to find their voice/status in world. Gives Af Am, for the 1st time, some accomplishments they can refer to. Af Am will find success in some areas-arts and music. Great Migrations- hundrends of Af Am will move north for jobs. End of 1920s 5.2 million/40% of Af Am in nation will be in north. Literary and artistic movement
2) Who were some of the important figures (and what they were famous for) during the Harlem Renaissance?
NAACP national advancement of colored people- James Weldon Johnson: leader. A group of lawyers fighting for Af Am right using the court system. Thurgood Marshall, the 1st black supreme court justice.
Zord Neal Herston: she's an actor and writer, wrote about Af Am experience in South. Louis Armstrong: music, trumpet, jazz. Duke Ellington: jazz pianist, great. Bessy Smith: female blues singer, highest paid Af Am at the time. Langston Hughes: poet, writes Af Am experience in his pov; his poems go everywhere, nationally, internationally.
3) In the Poem, Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, what is the message (make sure you included the "why")?
To keep going, to not give up even when it's hard. Life isn't fair or easy but giving up isn't the answer. Why: she was an Af Am, and they were treated horribly, harshly, inhumanely, unfair, and they were prejudiced against. But she never gave up and she kept on plowing through and she told Langston to keep on going, to not give up or give in.
Af Am begin to find their voice/status in world. Gives Af Am, for the 1st time, some accomplishments they can refer to. Af Am will find success in some areas-arts and music. Great Migrations- hundrends of Af Am will move north for jobs. End of 1920s 5.2 million/40% of Af Am in nation will be in north. Literary and artistic movement
2) Who were some of the important figures (and what they were famous for) during the Harlem Renaissance?
NAACP national advancement of colored people- James Weldon Johnson: leader. A group of lawyers fighting for Af Am right using the court system. Thurgood Marshall, the 1st black supreme court justice.
Zord Neal Herston: she's an actor and writer, wrote about Af Am experience in South. Louis Armstrong: music, trumpet, jazz. Duke Ellington: jazz pianist, great. Bessy Smith: female blues singer, highest paid Af Am at the time. Langston Hughes: poet, writes Af Am experience in his pov; his poems go everywhere, nationally, internationally.
3) In the Poem, Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, what is the message (make sure you included the "why")?
To keep going, to not give up even when it's hard. Life isn't fair or easy but giving up isn't the answer. Why: she was an Af Am, and they were treated horribly, harshly, inhumanely, unfair, and they were prejudiced against. But she never gave up and she kept on plowing through and she told Langston to keep on going, to not give up or give in.