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This is a photo of Langston Hughes. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories and plays. He highlighted the lives of the black community and challenges they faced in America such as racism. Hughes also was known for being involved in Jazz music and the affect it had on his poetry.

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Apollo theater

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'Harlem'
by Langston Hughes

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?

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Luis Armstrong was one of the most appreciated jazz artist during the Harlem Renaissance. He was popular for his solo performances and his raspy voice.

Here is a song of his that I personally know and enjoy:

What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

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The Harlem Renaissance was an African American Artistic movement that thrived throughout the 1920's. African Americans were able to express themselves through paintings, theater, dance, and literature. This movement helped redefine how others understood their culture.

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The Harlem Renaissance was based in Harlem New York. During this time the movement was called the New Negro Movement. This movement ended up having influence on the U.S and even the world.

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jazz music was one of the most common types of music performed by African american during the Harlem renaissance.

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The Cotton Club was established in 1923. It was located in Harlem where African Americans performed. The clientele was white only and they enjoyed the Jazz music.

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Duke Ellington was a jazz performer and composer who wrote over 2,000 pieces in his lifetime. He was one of the first to focus on musical form and composition in Jazz. The Duke Ellington Orchestra was a popular orchestra at the Cotton Club.

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Claude McKay was one of the first African American poets. Unlike most artists during the Renaissance movement, McKay was born and raised in Jamaica and migrated to the US. His poems talk about America with a mix of love and hate and a mix of pain and pleasure.

Here is one of McKay's poems titled 'Pleasure'
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate.
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

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Zora Neale Hurston was a writer. Her most famous novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God. This novel of hers gave different ways of thinking of gender and race roles.

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Josephine Baker was a dancer, singer, comedian and an actress. She traveled to Paris to perform and that is when her career took off.

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Billy Robinson was a famous tap-dancer. Whites called him "bonjangles" but to blacks he was called "squabbler". Robinson was known for his elegant style and grace. In the 1930's he performed at the Cotton Club.

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Jacob Lawrence was a painter. He grew up in Harlem in a settlement house. Lawrence was the first mainstream African American artists. His early work as an artist was inspired by is own life and the life of other African Americans. He won many awards and recognition for his works throughout his life.

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Billie Holiday, also knows as "Lady Day", was one of the first black women to work with a white orchestra. She started a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She helped write a few songs that became jazz standards. "God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," "Fine and Mellow," and "lady Sings the Blues."

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Chick Webb was and American jazz and swing music drummer. He was born in Baltimore and suffered from tuberculosis of the spine. He worked as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums and he first played professionally when he was 11. He moved to New York City when he was 17 and began leading his own band in Harlem. His band became the house band at the Savoy Ballroom. He became one of the best band leaders and drummers of the swing style.

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Wallace Thurman was a publisher, an editor and a writer of novels, plays and articles. Thurman along with other African American artists wanted to show the real lives of African Americans, the good and the bad. He believed that black artists should be more objective in their writings and  celebrate the difficult conditions of African American lives.

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florence mills

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Dreams painting by Jacob Lawrence

"I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools... I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro."

- Jacob Lawrence

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paul robeson

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marcus garvey

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Study for gods trombones by Aaron Douglas 

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Aaron Douglas' art reunited emphasis on Africa with Jungle and tribal scenes as a way of glorifying American heritage.

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This Art by Archibald Motley shows African Americans enjoying dancing and music. This type of art of African Americans enjoying themselves was a way to break stereotypes from others.

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A philip randolph