What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Author(s)

• Smith, Sherri L.
• Foley, Tim

Bibliographic Information

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley

（What was?）

Penguin Workshop, 2021

Note

Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references

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

Ages 8-12 Penguin Workshop

Contents of Works

• 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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. 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 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. With 80 fun black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!

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Details

• NCID: BC0735168X
• ISBN:
  • 9780593225905
• LCCN: 2021020890
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: pages cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F128.68.H3
  • DC23 : 974.7/100496073
  • DC23 : 974.7100496073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Harlem Renaissance -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
  • LCSH : African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature