BLACK MIGRATION

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

WHAT IT WAS

• The flowering of Black American artistic creativity
• Centered in the Harlem community of NYC
• Embraced literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts
• Hoped to re-conceptualize "the Negro" stereotypes

People and Places

Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
The Cotton Club
Zora Neal Hurston
Palmer Hayden

Langston Hughes

• Poet, novelist, playwright, columnist
• Success took off in the mid-1920's

•Most popular works included:
The Weary Blues
Not Without Laughter
The Poetry of The Negro

Louis Armstrong

• Born in New Orleans, grew up around jazz
• One of the most famous jazz artist and musicians of all time

• Known for:
Star Dust
La Via En Rose
What A Wonderful World

The Cotton Club

• Club on Lenox Avenue first opened in 1920
• Owned by heavy weight boxing champion, Jack Johnson
• Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Nicholas Brothers among greatest performers
• Turned into the most popular nightclub in Harlem
• Most of its success lasted from 1922 to 1935 before closing in 1940

THE SPREAD OF JAZZ

• Originated in New Orleansin the early 1900's
• Employment opportunities grew in the north
• Which then spread jazz also because people took it with them
• Spread primarily to St. Louis, Chicago, and New York
• But did spread throughout the country and forever impacted cultures