Harlem by Alondra Garcia

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Hold fast to dreams 
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes

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Communities were so close to the point that it wasn't even a choice.

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The difference in how men and women were represented.

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The beauty of women captured during this time.

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Harlem Renaissance past time.

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The type of art being made during this time.

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A night club.

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Prime time for Jazz music.

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Movers and shakers in Harlem

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Notable aspects.

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Bessie Smith one of the most famous blues singers during the Harlem Renaissance.

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"Love, oh love, oh careless love
In your clutches of desire
You've made me break a many true vow
Then you set my very soul on fire"

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I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

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Today, the Apollo theater still stands after years past.

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The Apollo

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Jacob Lawrence created stories with his paintings; most of them explaining the story of many, immigration.

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One of Lawrence's pieces.

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Duke Ellington, writer and composer of Jazz music.

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Started and evolved the Jazz music industry.

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From performing to musicals, Louis Armstrong moved the Harlem Renaissance with music.

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Armstrong's humble beginnings helped this music thrive.

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If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die..
- Claude McKay

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McKay used his political knowledge to show their oppression through his writing.

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Drop me off in Harlem
Any place in Harlem
There's someone waiting there
Who makes it seem like Heaven up in Harlem

- Ella Fitzgerald "Drop Me Off in Harlem

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Fitzgerald's voice was made for Jazz music.

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A live show performance inside of the Cotton Club.

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142nd St and Lenox Ave, Harlem

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The 1935 Harlem Riot but an end to the era of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Today, the Harlem Renaissance is remembered and shared as a positive movement despite the harsh views.