What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Title:
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Author:
Smith, Sherri L., author.
ISBN:
9780593225912
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Physical Description:
107 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series:
An official Who HQ book
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Contents:
What Was the Harlem Renaissance? -- Welcome to Harlem! -- Changing times -- On with the show! -- A night to remember -- New voices -- All that Jazz -- Artists of the Renaissance -- Stars of stage and screen -- The end . . . and after.
Abstract:
"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher.
Reading Level:
Ages 8-12 Penguin Workshop
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