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By: Patricia Serrano Angelica Garcia Alejandra Lugo Omar Vega. Harlem Renaissance. Was originated at Harlem, New Y ork Originally known a s the Negro Movement It lasted from the 1919’s to the mid 1930’s. One of the greatest contributors was James Weldon Johnson.
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By: Patricia Serrano Angelica Garcia Alejandra Lugo Omar Vega
Harlem Renaissance • Was originated at Harlem, New York • Originally known a s the Negro Movement • It lasted from the 1919’s to the mid 1930’s. • One of the greatest contributors was James Weldon Johnson. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozMmVlInb0
Novels • Dark Laughter (1925) – Sherwood Anderson • There is Confusion (1924) – Jessie RedmonFauset • The Walls of Jericho (1928) – Rudolph Fisher • Not Without Laughter ( 1930) – Langston Hughes • Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934) – Zora Neale Hurston • Passing (1929) – Nella Larsen • Banjo (1929) – Claude MacKay
Novels • Black no more (1930) – George Schuyler • Interne (1932) – Wallace Thurman • Cane (1923) – Jean Toomer • Nigger Heaven (1929) – Carl Van Vechten • Tropic Death (1926) – Eric Walrond • Flight (1926) – Walter White
James Weldon Johnson • Politician, journalist, poet, anthologist, lawyer, songwriter, early civil rights activist. • Best remembered for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and folklore.
James Weldon Johnson • God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927) in one of the works for which he is best known today. • He wrote the Negro National Anthem.
Zora Neale Hurston • Best known for the novel Their Eyes were watching God ( 1937) • One of the literally renaissance Happening in Harlem, producing the magazine Fire!!
Langston Hughes • Helped in the creation of the magazine Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists • Stressed the importance of a racial consciousness and cultural nationalism
Alain LeRoy Locke • “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” • His philosophy served as a strong motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement. • His most famous work is The New Negro (1925)
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois • Published over 4,000 articles, essays and books.