| Weekend BHM Trivia (Part 8) The Finale?

Weekend BHM Trivia (Part 8) The Finale?

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I am doing this a bit different. This is the final of my series on Weekend Black History (for now). Instead of me posting hints of guessing a person, I will be giving some info. I don’t remember if this topic was covered, but if it was, I am sorry. Also even though the month is over, those of us who have contributed (HNIC, Ms. Biscuits, and whoever else I forgot), thank you for taking the time out and schooling us on knowledge we don’t know about.

So if you are interested, read on, if not be gone.

I just want to recognize the “Black Literary Renaissance” or the more popular term known as “The Harlem Renaissance.” The movement began during the 1920’s. It was a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North.
and to Harlem. The area soon became a sophisticated literary and artistic center. A number of periodicals were influential in creating this milieu, particularly the magazines Crisis, which was published by W. E. B. Du Bois and urged racial pride among African Americans, and Opportunity.

Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to produce a wide variety of fine and highly original works dealing with African-American life. These works attracted many black readers. New to the wider culture, they also attracted commercial publishers and a large white readership.

Alan Locke: “Father of The Harlem Renaissance.”

Locke promoted African American artists, writers, and musicians, encouraging them to look to Africa as an inspiration for their works. He encouraged them to depict African and African American subjects, and to draw on their history for subject material.
Countee Cullen

Cullen wrote poetry inspired by American black life. His technique was conventional, modeled on that of John Keats, and his mood passed from racial pride and optimism in the 1920s to sadness and disappointment in the 1930s. Among his volumes of verse are Color

Zora Neale Hurston

An anthropologist and folklorist, Hurston collected African-American folktales in the rural South and sympathetically interpreted them in the collections Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938). A third volume of tales, Every Tongue Got to Confess, was discovered in manuscript and published in 2001.

Jean Tooomer

In 1923, Toomer published the novel, Cane, an important work of High Modernism. It is considered by scholars to be his best work. A series of poems and short stories about the Black experience in America, Cane was hailed by critics and is seen as an important work of both the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation
Claude McKay

McKay is best remembered for his poems treating racial themes. For years McKay was involved in radical political activities

James Mercer Langston Hughes

Hughes writing, which often uses dialect and jazz rhythms, is largely concerned with depicting African American life, particularly the experience of the urban African American. (if anyone is interested in poetry, I would highly suggest you get “The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.”

other notary figures include: Arna Bontemps, Eric Walrond, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Richard Bruce Nugent, Rudolph Fisher, and a few others.
If anyone wants to add to this, feel free. If anyone is gonna hate, don’t bother to waste your time. I will report you, and I am sure others will.
babyphatchick662: Thank you for taking the time out to reading this. Yes we have alot of unknown history that should be taught in the classroom. Our kids should be able to learn about our history.

Thank you to everyone else who took the time out to read and/or respond to the threads.

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