Harlem Renaissance
Speech parts
1. Harlem Renaissance - Noun
2. Harlem Renaissance - Proper noun
Meaning
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Literary Lights reading series celebrates Black History Month by honoring the Harlem Renaissance, with writers Hawona Sullivan-Janzen, Brenda Brown Bell, James Bernard Short, A. Rafael Johnson, Mary Moore Easter and Clarence White.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the " Harlem Renaissance ", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community.
The inspiration for this book more than anything was Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, a satirical novel that basically shows what it was like to live through the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance.
She was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt as well as with leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance and befriended and employed (who in her own right was a very successful author) as her chauffeur, secretary and confidante.
I am focusing this year on the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance.