Harlem Renaissance Project

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  1. Good morning.
  2. My name is Gabrielle Harper and I studied the Harlem
  3. Renaissance for my Black History Month project.
  4. The Harlem Renaissance started in 1918 due to white supremacy
  5. and black stereotypes.
  6. African Americans had about relationship with their culture, so the
  7. Harlem Renaissance Fair was made to show them that their
  8. culture and them are both unique and amazing.
  9. The first part of the Harlem Renaissance is poetry, poems
  10. that the Harlem Renaissance are very famous for many things,
  11. like their impact on people, their deep meanings and their
  12. view on the world.
  13. Some famous African American poets are lengthen Huges, Gwendolyn Brooks,
  14. Phyllis Wheatley, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelo and Claude McKay.
  15. These were some of the poems they wrote.
  16. Here is a poem by Langston.
  17. Huge is called Harlem.
  18. What happens to a dream?
  19. Divert? Does it dry up like a raisin in the
  20. sun or fester like a sore and then run?
  21. Does it sink stink like rotten meat or or crust
  22. and sugar over like a syrupy sweet maybe just sags
  23. like a heavy load?
  24. Or does it explode?
  25. The next part of Harlem Renaissance is art.
  26. Art is a huge part of Harlem Renaissance There is
  27. all sorts of art, from paper to sculptures.
  28. Famous African American artists are horrors, Pippen job, Jacob Lawrence,
  29. William Johnson, Richmond Birthday and Walker Evans.
  30. The sentences next to them are the portrait or pictures
  31. that they need thes air pictures of the artwork from
  32. the artist stated above.
  33. The next important part of the Harlem Renaissance is music.
  34. Music is a very special topic because during the Harlem
  35. Renaissance Times, African American artists would come up with all
  36. sorts of new genres, from rock and roll to smooth
  37. jazz. Some famous African American musicians are Billie Holiday, Duke
  38. Ellington, Fats Walter, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith and Louise
  39. Armstrong. These were some album covers from Ah, Musicians Stated
  40. above. Here's a song by Billie Holiday from the album
  41. Strange Fruit.
  42. Yeah, yeah, some trees, male Strange much Who?
  43. Blood on the leaves and Blood, Absolutely black bodies swinging
  44. from love up a tree.
  45. So the last topic is theater.
  46. Two of the biggest theaters were the Apollo Theater and
  47. the Lincoln Theater.
  48. The Apollo Theater was first opened in 1914, not until
  49. 1934 where black people allowed toe the actors of the
  50. Apollo Theater During that year, the theater had started a
  51. new event called the Amateur Night, and one of their
  52. first winners was Ella Fitzgerald.
  53. The Lincoln Theater was first opened in 1922.
  54. The Lincoln Theater is known as a landmark in black
  55. and history of African American jazz.
  56. For more than 30 years, Lincoln Theater featured live performances
  57. with amazing African American actors and singers such as Leon
  58. Hampton, Duke Ellington, Nat Cole Trio and Billie Holiday.
  59. Some famous African American actors are Jackie Mabley.
  60. Do We Mark Him?
  61. Nicholas Brothers, Bill Robinson, Mamie Smith and Ethel Walter Waters.
  62. Some famous plays and skits are Amos and Andy appearances.
  63. Birth of a Nation, Birth of a Race, Black and
  64. White and Black Birds.
  65. Thank you for listening to my presentation on the Harlem
  66. Renaissance Fair, The End.