Chapter 21- Harlem Renaissance

Question 1

Zora Neale Hurtson

Answer 1

African American writer who portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern blacks

Question 2

James Weldon Johnson

Answer 2

• leader of NAACP
• fought for legislation to protect African American rights
• focused on anti-lynching laws

Question 3

Marcus Garvey

Answer 3

• African Americans should build a separate society

- encouraged his followers to return to Africa and help the natives throw off white colonial oppressors

Question 4

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 4

a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture

Question 5

Claude McKay

Answer 5

• poet

- his poems expressed the pain of life in the black ghettos and the strain of being black in a world dominated by whites

Question 6

Langston Hughes

Answer 6

poems described the difficult lives of working class African Americans

Question 7

Jean Toomer

Answer 7

wrote Cane, which was about blacks in the South and North

Question 8

Paul Robeson

Answer 8

• major dramatic actor
• acted in Shakespeare’s Othello in London and New York
• struggled with racism in America

Question 9

Louis Armstrong

Answer 9

• made personal expression a key part of jazz

- most important and influential musician in the history of jazz

Question 10

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

Answer 10

• jazz pianist and composer

- one of the greatest composers

Question 11

Cab Calloway

Answer 11

popularized “scat” or improvised jazz singing using sounds instead of words

Question 12

Bessie Smith

Answer 12

• female blues singer

- highest paid black artist in the world