More than a literary movement and more than a social revolt against racism, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African Americans and redefined African American expression. ... The sights and sounds of Harlem, its music and dance and intellectual life, inspired Langston more than his classes in mining engineering, and eventually he quit school. ... Having difficulty finding work, Hughes, twenty-one years old, joined the crew of a ship sailing for Africa. ... He painted many different series of works depicting the lives of many different African Americans. ... During the Harl...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... During that time many African Americans started showing their different talents. ... The African American way of life was changing. ... The ship visited thirty-two ports on the West African Coats. ... Hughes" poetry was a reflection of the African-American culture and Harlem. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His father was not happy with the way African Americans were being treated so he moved to Mexico. ... He was elected in his class because there was only one other African American and she was was a girl. The class like most of America thought that most African Americans can sing and dance so they thought that Langston would have rhythm. ... Woodson, who worked with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. ... Langston was always trying to help African Americans learn to love White Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1086
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• Grade Level: High School

""(93) and this new man was going to show the world that African Americans had meaning and were not just slaves and good singers. ... He watched the rise and fall of African Americans in the 1920's. ... He says that Shuffle Along , " gave just the proper push to that Negro vogue of the 20's, that spread to books, African sculpture, music and dancing."" (100) This was all when the Negro was in vogue. ... Yes, African Americans did rise but they were still too weak minded to stay on top. ... After African Americans made it too the top they still allowed the whites to bring them ...

• Word Count: 1250
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• Grade Level: High School

For six months the ship Hughes was on made its way up and down the western coast of Africa. His time in Africa was inspirational, resulting in several poems condemning white colonialism or celebrating black unity and beauty. After leaving Africa, Hughes headed for Paris. ... The one person who was able to penetrate Hughes remoteness was a beautiful Chinese ballet-dancer named Si-Lan Chen, whom he met in 1933 while staying in Moscow. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book-buying public. Magazines as The Crisis, a monthly journal of the NAACP, and Opportunity, an official publication of the Urban League, employed Harlem Renaissance writers on their editorial staff; published poetry and short stories by black writers; and promoted African American literature through articles, reviews, and ...

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Harlem became the most well known African Americans city, as it represented a kind of Eden, a cultural capital where literature and art symbolized their way of life. Harlem was giving a hope of resurrection to all African Americans in the United States lay awakening the artistic and sociocultural of their community. The Harlem Renaissance was provoked by different movements such as literature, with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen or Zora Neale Hurston, music, dance, painting, church, even the Harlem population itself directed its way of life and way of thinking to progress in the American soci...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Life And Times Of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920's that celebrated black life and culture. ... Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. ... He was the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first African American to be elected to public office in 1855. ... During these years, he held odd jobs as an as...

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• Has Bibliography
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Zora Neale Hurston was an excellent writer African-American literature and a playwright. ... The play was directed by Kyle Donnelly, and the 37 musical pieces within the play are directed by Stephen Wade, of the long-running show "Banjo Dancing." ...

• Word Count: 998
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• Grade Level: High School