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She traveled the country selling with air care produckts she made. Black people usually weren't allowed to travel without their Master.
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Was a black man appouinted by the President of thje U.S. 1906. This is showing more racial equality.
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The “Jazz Age” evoked rapid mechanization and the giddy good life of America's more high-rolling citizens, as much as it did a particular genre of music.
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"The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement".
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He also didn't accpet his scholorship to the jamacian institute of arts and science to move to the US. In 1921 he was helped with the Negro Imprvment Assocation.
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Aaron Douglas, an influential African American Modernist painter, drew from African American heritage and culture in his work that influenced many artists involved in the Harlem Renaissance.
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He was awarded a Scholarship to the Pratt Institute, but did not take it. He chose to play ragtime music at the age of 17. He didn't follow the rules by not accepting the scholarship. Some people still listen and talk about his music now in the 21st century
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In the 1900s pushed for racial equalily instead of sitting back being treaed wrong
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Showed his poems to a White poem writer name Vachel lindsey
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In 1935, he became the first African-American writer in the 20th century to translate and publish Euripides' classical work Medea. He also went to Harvard University
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With an exuberant style that combined dazzling technique and sophisticated use of harmony, Art Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.
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The Harlem Renaissance starts when millions of blacks move north due to poor conditions in the South. This movement is called the Great Migration (Grossman.np). When the blacks move north, they move into neighborhoods where other blacks already are. New York and Chicago are where most blacks move. These crowed communities are a breeding ground for art and literature because blacks are not being oppressed in any way, and have the freedom to do anything they want to do for a living.
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Appeared on Broadway in 1922, which usually on had white people.
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She was convinced by W.e.b. Du bois to become a punlisher. She enoucouraged writers such as Langston Hughes and Cluade Mckay.
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The Great Depression force people feel gloomy and gave them a bad outlook aof how life was.
