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Harlem Renaissance
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History
11th Grade
04/22/2010

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Jessie Fauset
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This author wrote There Is Confusion (1924) about middle-class black Americans from a woman's perspective
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White literary establishment
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On March 21, 1924 Charles S. Johnson of the National Urban League hosted a dinner to recognize new black talent and to introduce that black talent to the ___ ___ ___ .
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Carl Von Vechten
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Wrote Nigger Heaven (1926)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Written by Zora Neale Hurston about black rural southern life from a female perspective.
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Countee Cullen
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Wrote the poem Heritage (1925) about the conflicts of being an African and a Christian
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Fire!!
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Magazine produced by young black writers in 1926.
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Claude McKay
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In 1921 ____ became associate editor of The Liberator
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Claude McKay
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Published Harlem Shadows, Banjo, Gingertown, Banana Bottom
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Langston Hughes
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Wrote The Negro Speaks to Rivers and dedicated it to W.E.B. DuBois.
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James Weldon Johnson
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Who said this: "Nothing could do more to change the mental attitudes and raise his status than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through his production of literature and art."
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Paul Robeson
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Gave up law to take on an acting career.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Wrote Spunk
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E. Franklin Frazier
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Essay on Social Equality
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Langston Hughes
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The Weary Blues
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Alain Locke
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The New Negro
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Marcus Garvey
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Thought the NAACP pandered to whites
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Claude McKay
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Wrote Home To Harlem
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Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
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Which two artists wrote the musical Shuffle Along
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need a bath
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After reading Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, W.E.B. Dubois claimed to ___ ___ ___ .
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Lindy Hop
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an original swing dance originating in Harlem in the 1920's
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The Cotton Club
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A whites only music venue with black performers and jungle decorations
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He Who Gets Slapped
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Claude McKay published this article in The Liberator alongside How Black Sees Green and Red.
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The Great Migration
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When thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North
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W.E.B. Dubois
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Who said this: "until the art of black folk compels recognition they will not be rated as human."
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Oak and Ivy
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Paul Laurence Dunbar's first book of poems.
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