Analyze Roaring Twenties + Harlem Renaissance + Great Migration: 18th Amendment Prohibition + women's changing roles + named Harlem Renaissance writers, musicians, artists; Great Migration 1910-70 6M+ Black Americans
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~4 min
hist.g8.s.ex_10
Matching
Prompt
Match each Harlem Renaissance figure to their work: (a) Langston Hughes; (b) Zora Neale Hurston; (c) Claude McKay; (d) Duke Ellington; (e) Aaron Douglas; (f) Marcus Garvey.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
matching
correct
- a
- 'I, Too' 1926 + 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' 1921
- b
- Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937
- c
- 'If We Must Die' 1919
- d
- Cotton Club 1927-31 + jazz compositions
- e
- Aspects of Negro Life 1934 NYC public library murals
- f
- UNIA 1914 + Negro World newspaper
Hints
- McKay's 'If We Must Die' 1919 responds to Red Summer.
- Hurston wrote Their Eyes 1937 (Janie Crawford).
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Hughes and Cullen poems
- Forgetting Garvey was political not literary
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