O.A. Please read pages 458-459 and answer the following questions:

1. Why might the nation’s large cities have been a magnet for many writers of the time?

2. How does the scene that Fitzgerald describes capture the essence of the Roaring Twenties?

3. What double meanings are conveyed in the language of the poems of Millay and Hughes?

Harlem Renaissance

Changing ones attitude & perspective on life

The Harlem Renaissance was -

A literary & artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

African Americans migrated north from the south

Expressed a changing attitude among themselves

Goal Setting

NAACP expanded – protested racial violence such as lynching

UNIA founded – awakened pride, economic interdependence, and reverence for Africa

Celebrated African American culture through - Writers – Langston Hughes, Zora Neale

Hurston Performers – Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters Music – Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong