Chapter 13 Test Flashcards
Struggled to the top of the African American literary society by hard work. Most famous female writer of the era.
Zora Neale Hurston
Lead on organization that fought for African American rights.
James Weldon Johnson
Believed that African Americans should build a separate society.
Marcus Garvey
Major figure whose actions urged African Americans to resist prejudice
Claude McKay
Most famous African American writer of the era
Langston Hudges
Talent rocketed him to stardom in jazz.
Louis Armstrong
Led his 10 piece orchestra at the cotton club
Duke Ellington
Harlem Renaissance was all about…
To celebrate African American culture and how whites accepted them into mainstream society.
Why did the Harlem Renaissance take place?
The urban migration
Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Charlies A Lindbergh
A concert music composer who merged traditional elements with jazz. Created a new sound
George Gershwin
Produced intensely colored canvases and captured the grandeur of New York. Recorded an America of realities and dreams.
Georgia O’Keefe
First American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Among the eras most outspoken critics.
Sinclair Lewis
Coined the term Jazz age in 1920s. Revealed the negative side to the gain of freedom.
F Scott Fitzgerald
Wrote Poems celebrating youth and life of Independence
Edna St. Vincent Millay