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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Title
What was the Harlem Renaissance? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley.
Author
Smith, Sherri L.
Publication
New York : Penguin Workshop, 2021.

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Additional Authors
Foley, Tim, 1962-
Description
108 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
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"--
Series Statement
What was ... ?
Uniform Title
What was--?
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Harlem Renaissance > Juvenile literature
  • African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life > 20th century > Juvenile literature
  • African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Juvenile literature
  • African American arts > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Juvenile literature
  • African American arts
  • African Americans > Intellectual life
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Intellectual life
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century > Juvenile literature
  • New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century > Juvenile literature
  • New York (State) > New York
  • New York (State) > New York > Harlem
Genre/Form
  • Juvenile works.
  • Instructional and educational works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).
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.
Call Number
Sc D 22-155
ISBN
  • 9780593225905
  • 0593225902
  • 9780593225912
  • 0593225910
LCCN
2021020890
OCLC
1243969591
Author
Smith, Sherri L., author.
Title
What was the Harlem Renaissance? / by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley.
Publisher
New York : Penguin Workshop, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
What was ... ?
What was--?
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Foley, Tim, 1962- illustrator.
Research Call Number
Sc D 22-155
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