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Harlem Renaissance Test Flashcards

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The Harlem Renaissance ran roughly from (blank) and was focused in Harlem, New York.

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1910-1930

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Renaissance means (blank)

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“rebirth or revival”

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The Harlem Renaissance movement included (blanks)

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artists, writers, musicians, and performers

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The Harlem Renaissance defines the (blank) and celebrates (blank)

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defines the African American heritage and celebrates their identity as Americans

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Allusions in Harlem Renaissance writing often refer to (blank)

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African American spirituals

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In Harlem Renaissance writing, superficial stereotypes (blank)

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superficial stereotypes later revealed to be characters capable of complex moral judgement

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What are the effects of the Harlem Renaissance movement?

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The period gave birth to a new form of religious music called “gospel music”. Blues and Jazz started to be transmitted across America on the radios.

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Zora Neal Hurston considers (blank) her home and birthplace

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Eatonville

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considers Eatonville her home and birthplace

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Zora Neal Hurston

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left home and spent the next 10 years traveling and working dead end jobs to afford to eat

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Zora Neal Hurston

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What did Zora do for 10 years after leaving home?

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she left home and spent the next 10 years traveling and working dead-end jobs to afford to eat

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She wanted her diploma so she lied about her age making herself pass as 16 and took advantage of getting an education at Howard Prep School

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Zora Neal Hurston

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What did Zora do to get her diploma?

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she lied about her age making herself pass as 16 and took advantage of getting an education at Howard Prep School

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she was the only African American at Barnard at the time

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Zora Neal Hurston

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Zora was the first African American to go where?

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Barnard

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What are Zora Neal Hurston’s famous works?

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Mules and Men, Their Eyes were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road

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Who was inspired by Zora Hurston, searched for her grave, and found it in a snake infested overgrown cemetery, later having a headstone made and placed on her grave?

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Alice Walker

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What does Zora’s grave say?

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“Zora Neal Hurston: A Genius of the South”

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What did Alice Walker do?

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When she was a young author inspired by Zora Hurston, who searched for her grave, and found it in a snake infested overgrown cemetery, she had a gravestone made and placed on Hurston’s grave

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Was a war correspondent in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War

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Langston Hughes

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What did Langston Hughes do in 1937?

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he was a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War

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wrote a column for the Chicago Defender

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Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes wrote a column for the

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Chicago Defender

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What were main influences on Langston Hughes’s poems?

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Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

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What were Langston Hughes’ famous works?

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“A Dream Deferred”, “Let America be America Again”, “I too”, and Not Without Laughter

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Main influences in his poetry were Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

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Langston Hughes

27
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born in Jamaica

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Claude McKay

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Where was Claude McKay born?

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in Jamaica: Festus Claudius McKay in 1889

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What pseudonym did Claude McKay publish his works under?

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Eli Edwards

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published his works under the pseudonym Eli Edwards

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Claude McKay

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A large portion of Claude McKay’s works were published in this radical magazine

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The Liberator

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his works were published in The Liberator-a radical magazine

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Claude McKay

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Explored communism and even visited the Soviet Union, but then found Catholicism late in life and focused on it rather than Communism

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Claude McKay

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Claude McKay explored (blank) even visiting the Soviet Union, but he later found (blank) and focused on that instead

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Communism; Catholicism

35
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What are Claude McKay’s famous works?

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“If We Must Die”, Home to Harlem, “Harlem Shadows”, and Amiable with Big Teeth

36
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joined the black traveling show known as the Tennessee Ten

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Florence Mills

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Fell ill to tuberculosis

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Florence Mills

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Most associated with singing “I’m a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird”

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Florence Mills

39
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His paintings depicted images of African American life and struggles

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Aaron Douglas

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One of his most famous works is called “Aspects if Negro Life”

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Aaron Douglas

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He is known as “the father of black American art”

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Aaron Douglas

42
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He taught Latin in order to pay for his tuition for college

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Paul Robeson

43
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“Ol’ Man River” was his signature tune

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Paul Robeson

44
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Othello was one of his most famous works

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Paul Robeson

45
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In 1927, she received the Nathaniel Thayer prize

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Lois Mailou Jones

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She served as a cultural ambassador to Africa in 1970

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Lois Mailou Jones

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Her art incorporated African heritage and black American experience

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Lois Mailou Jones

48
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He started studying piano at age 7

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Duke Ellington

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He wrote his first song working at a soda fountain

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Duke Ellington

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the famous work, “Take the A Train” was composed for his band and is also his most famous tune

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Duke Ellington

51
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Eleanora Fagan is her real name

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Billie Holiday

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She was arrested for illegal drug use

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Billie Holiday

53
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Lester Young gave her the name Lady Day

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Billie Holiday

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She adopted 12 children from various countries, calling them her “Rainbow Tribe”

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Josephine Baker

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The show La Folie de Jour included her infamous banana skirt

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Josephine Baker

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During her time as a Civil Rights Activist, she participated in the March on Washington in 1963

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Josephine Baker

57
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He had four wives

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Louis Armstrong

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His band was first called the Hot Five

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Louis Armstrong

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His song “What a Wonderful World” was recorded and released in 1967

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Louis Armstrong

60
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attended Tuskegee Institute

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Claude McKay

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where did Claude McKay attend school in Alabama?

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Tuskegee Institute

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