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The Harlem Renaissance inspired religion to flourish into many different natures during this time. During the 1920's -30's, different types of Christianity and churches evolved. In 1920, The African American Pentecostal was made. It offered a new experience in relation to old traditions. In 1921, Marcus Garvey organized The African Orthodox Church. It was similar to Orthodox Christianity in Africa.

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. He believed that each race should be free and able to “in its own way, to develop for civilization its particular message, its particular ideal, which shall help guide the world nearer and nearer that perfection of human life, for which we all long, that ‘one far off Divine event’” (From “The Conservation of Races”)

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New Yorkers did not received the blacks with open arms, they discriminated them like people discriminate mexicans in the US today. Given to the bad treatment the Afro-American moved to suburbs, focusing in the Harlem neighborhood.

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Ryan Gosling explains to Emma Stone what jazz is - La La Land

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Jazz had an unique characteristic for the time, improvisation. Musicians created the music at the stage, live and with every one watching. Surprisingly the melody created at the time, with no rehearsal, matches perfectly with the other instruments, that are also improvising, and make a song that is totally new and will never be heard again. Man, how jazz is awesome!!!

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wrote plays and short stories, as well as poems, to capture the spirit of his times

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The rebirth of white supremacy in the deep south forced the Afro-Americans to move north.

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Without trying to copy whites, the "new negro" was classy and intelectual, it was a new society formed by intelectual and cultural black people

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The "new negro"made the race proud of itself. music, literature and philosophy, the black people were mastering this art and making the nation proud.

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People such as WEB Dubois, A. Philip Randolph, and Marcus Garvey fought for social equality. A. Philip Randolph, under influence of Dubois, joined the socialist party and started to inform people on 135Street and Lenox avenue about socialism

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Some believed that the Afro-Americans could never leave their place in society and substitute for a higher rank with culture and class.

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The movement changed the blacks stereotype to the white society. The migration of southern Blacks to the north changed the image of the African American from rural, undereducated peasants to one of urban, cosmopolitan sophistication

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A neighborhood in New York where, in the early 1900ás, lots of African Americans lived. The enclosed living among African American and some American and European culture created the perfect environment to flourish art and culture, beginning the Harlem Renaissance.

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Most famous writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He believed that the language of the poem should be simple, so people could easily understand and reach a larger public, so his poems were simple and extremely harmonic.

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Langston Hughe

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The jazz music followed a different rhythm, it mimics the speech of the African Americans and made jazz the great style it is.

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Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (1943)

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One of the pioneers of jazz, he is an extremely gifted singer and composer, his abilities drew huge audiences as white Americans as well as African Americans caught jazz fever.

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Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Lyrics)

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The creation of Jazz asked for a dance to complete the movement, and this agitated dance called

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The piano was an instrument associated with the rich, it is expensive and sophisticated, but Harlem brought the rich and the poor together by joining the piano into jazz and the people's culture.

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Jazz is the result of self-expression, cultural roots and black music influence all in one music style.
The style is agitated and unpredictable, the improvisation and independence among the instruments make the style frenetic, and it creates Swing, and oh my god it swings!!

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