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Author:

Smith, Sherri L., author.

Title:

What was the Harlem Renaissance? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley.

Publisher:

Penguin Workshop,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Harlem Renaissance--Juvenile literature.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--New York--New York--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.
African American arts--New York--New York--20th century--Juvenile literature.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Foley, Tim, 1962- illustrator.

Notes:

"An official Who HQ book"--cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

What Was the Harlem Renaissance? -- Welcome to Harlem! -- Changing Times -- On with the Show! -- A Night to Remember -- New Voices -- All That Jazz -- Artists of the Renaissance -- Stars of Stage and Screen -- The End . . . and After -- Timelines.

Summary:

"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

What was?

ISBN:

0593225910
9780593225912
0593225902
9780593225905

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1243969591

LCCN:

2021020890

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