Harlem Renaissance Mini-Test Flashcards
What was the name of the show that Mills had with her sisters?
The Mills Sisters
Langston Hughes graduated from where in 1920?
Central High School
Langston Hughes directed a film in 1932 in what country?
Soviet Union
What was Duke Ellington’s real name
Edward Kennedy
Duke Ellington was the originator of what?
Big-band Jazz
Billie Holiday’s real name was what?
Eleanora Fagan
Who served as a rifleman in WWI?
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Paul Robeson played college football for whom?
University of Rutgers
Lois Mailou Jones depicted the rise of African Americans in what?
Ascent of Ethiopia
Josephine Baker was a spy and smuggled messages where?
Under her dress
Josephine Baker adopted how many children?
12
Aaron Douglas taught at what university?
Fisk University
What was the name of Louis Armstrong band?
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Louis Armstrong was a what?
Trumpeter
“Not without Laughter”
Langston Hughes
