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Madem CJ Walker
She traveled the country selling with air care produckts she made. Black people usually weren't allowed to travel without their Master. -
James Weldon Johnson
Was a black man appouinted by the President of thje U.S. 1906. This is showing more racial equality. -
Jazz
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. -
Huburt Harrison
"The Father of Harlem Radicalism," founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". -
Claude Mckay
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. -
Aaron Douglas
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. -
Duke ellington
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 -
NAACP
In the 1900s pushed for racial equalily instead of sitting back being treaed wrong -
Langston hughes
Showed his poems to a White poem writer name Vachel lindsey -
Countee Cullen
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 -
Art Tatum
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. -
What the Harlem renaissance has to do with the Modernist Era
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. -
Florence Mills
Appeared on Broadway in 1922, which usually on had white people. -
Jessie Fauset
She was convinced by W.e.b. Du bois to become a punlisher. She enoucouraged writers such as Langston Hughes and Cluade Mckay. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression force people feel gloomy and gave them a bad outlook aof how life was.
