What was the Harlem Renaissance?
"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...
| Main Author: | Smith, Sherri L. (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Foley, Tim, 1962- (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Workshop,
2021.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: |
107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Audience: |
Ages 8-12 |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780593225905 0593225902 9780593225912 0593225910 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |