Who put the Renaissance in the Harlem Renaissance?
Exploring African American culture in the 1920's
 

Who put the Renaissance in the Harlem Renaissance?

An English and Social Studies LibraryQuest

The Harlem Renaissance was the first large movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians which supported a flowering of social and cultural thought in the United States.

Zora Neale Hurston
Alan Lomax.[Zora Neale Hurston. Eatonville, Florida, 1935].
American Folklife Center. African American Odyssey, Library of Congress

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How could anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? Its beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston

 

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Patty Tuttle-Newby © 2005

This LibraryQuest is part of a collection of K-12 primary source-based lessons created by
the Teaching with Primary Sources Northern Virginia Partnership.