What was the HarlemRenaissance? -- Welcome to Harlem! -- Changing times -- On with the show! -- A night to remember -- New voices -- All that Jazz -- Artists of the Renaissance -- Stars of stage and screen -- The end . . . and after.
Audience
Ages 8-12 Penguin Workshop
Summary
"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the HarlemRenaissance"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).