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Focus Question:

How did the Harlem Renaissance reflect


the lives and celebrate the culture of
African-Americans in the 1920s?

Do Now:
Read How It Feels to be Colored Me, by
Zora Neale Hurston. Based on this reading,
answer the following: What do you know about
the author? What is she saying about herself?
Write down 3-4 main ideas.

Reasons for African-Americans to


move
North:
Reasons to leave the South
Reasons to come to the
North

PUSH
FACTORS
Jim Crow laws
Segregation
Violence
(KKK)
Crop failures

PULL
FACTORS
Jobs
Less racism
No
segregation
Family in

The Harlem Renaissance


A period of time in the 1920s when
African-American achievements in
art, music, and literature flourished.

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Themes of the Harlem Renaissance:

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