Harlem Renaissance

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/harlem-renaissance

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the movement category?Intellectual and cultural movement
2. What is the primary timeframe?1920s and 1930s
3. Why did many African Americans move to Harlem?They left the South to escape racism and find jobs, and Harlem became a place where many could live together and create art.
4. Who were some famous writers of the Harlem Renaissance?Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston wrote books that talked about Black life and culture.

Cultural Efflorescence: A period of great artistic and intellectual growth and flourishing within a society.
Institutionalization: The process of establishing something as a custom or norm within an organization or society.
African Diaspora: The scattering of people of African descent to various parts of the world, particularly the Americas.