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Harlem Renaissance Basics Test Review

Look back at the book and your notes and put down key things to know about the following
people:

Claude McKay

Rudolph Fisher

Langston Hughes

Louis Armstrong

Bessie Smith

Duke Ellington

Ethel Waters

Aaron Douglas

James Van Der Zee

Look back at the book and your notes and put down key things to know about the following
things:

The Red Summer

The factors that led to the start of the Harlem Renaissance


The role of theater before the Harlem Renaissance (minstrel shows), at the start of the Harlem
Renaissance (Shuffle Along), and during it.

The New Negro Movement vs. the old way of doing things.

Key details about the birth jazz and how it changed our country

Fire!! and the new voices that were heard from within the African American community

The debates within, end, and legacy of the Harlem Renaissance

Look back at the following works of literature and put down key things to know about them:

Miss Cynthie

If We Must Die

Dream Boogie; As I Grew Older; and Harlem

Tableau

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

When the Negro was in Vogue

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