Harlem Renaissance

Representative authors included ___ Neale Hurston, WEB DuBois, Nella Larsen, andClaude McKay.

The enormous growth of ____ ______ created new job openings for blacks.

The ___________ was a literary movement with roots in this social change.

The ___ ___ caused the Harlem group of writers to scatter (leave NY or take other jobs).

The North saw its black population rise about_____ percent between 1910 and 1930.

Blacks did NOT work in factories but in the service jobs that new factory workers vacated.

Social change occurred when the silent minorities seized the rebellious, ___ time to speak up.

African American literature changed during the 1920s from imitating white writers to ____ ____.

The popularity of jazz helped expose the rest of the country to African-American voices. 

Representative authors included Langston Hughes, _____ Cullen, & James Weldon Johnson.

The great migration was African-Americans moving to northern cities (NY City, Chicago, and __) 

Jazz became a vehicle for _______ against racism and social injustice.

Defined: an African-American _, _, & _ movement that flourished in NY City in the early 1900s.

The new style of black literature, poetry, and music revealed and stimulated new confidence & _

Never before had so many Americans read and embraced the thoughts of African-Americans.

Many African-Americans wanted to avoid the racial segregation of ____ ____ laws in the South.

Blacks sought refuge in the "_________" of the North where there was much less segregation.

The Harlem Renaissance helped lay the foundation for the Civil Rights movement.

Transformed African-American ___ and history, but it also transformed ____ culture in general. 

In the early 1900s, ________became the capital of black America.

The migration of African Americans to NY and Chicago helped speed up the evolution of ___ music

_______ stopped European immigrants to the Northeast and Midwest, causing shortages of workers.