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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?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What was the Harlem

Renaissance?

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Industrialization attracts African Americans to northern cities.

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

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An Explosion of Black Culture in Harlem:

Which of the arts did the Harlem

Renaissance affect?

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Painting and Sculpture

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JAZZCountBasie

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Duke Ellington

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Billie Holiday

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LITERATURE

Langston Hughes

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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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Zora Neale Hursto

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What were Jim Crow Laws?

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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.

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