“Sec. 21.4 Notes”

Topic: The Harlem Renaissance

2/6/1225

Causes • Great Migration• Need to be heard

(politically)• Emerging

educated/middle class supports A.A. art, music, & literature

• Emerging white interest in A.A. culture (jazz)

HarlemRenaissance

Causes and Effects of the Harlem Renaissance

Effects• Creation of an African American

voice• Celebration of A.A. culture

& life• Hughes, Armstrong,

Ellington become American icons

Langston Hughes“HARLEM”

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Zora Neale Hurston

Author and anthropologist

Louis Armstrong