what was the harlem renaissance?

What was the Harlem

Renaissance?

Industrialization attracts African Americans to northern cities.

Harlem, in New York City, became a center for the expanding black middle class.

An Explosion of Black Culture in Harlem:

Which of the arts did the Harlem

Renaissance affect?

Painting and Sculpture

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Duke Ellington

Billie Holiday

LITERATURE

Langston Hughes

Countee

Cullin

For A Lady I Know

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  She even thinks that up in heavenHer class lies late and snores

While poor black cherubs rise at sevenTo do celestial chores.

For A Lady I Know

She even thinks that Up in heavenHer class lies late and snores.While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores

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What were Jim Crow Laws?

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans.