1. Harlem Renaissance
African American
Impact
By
Jerrell Meads, Peter Mosian,
Wageh Wadi, Tia Hardy

4. Harlem Renaissance
(music)
by Jerrell Meads

7. >Harlem Streets<
• Harlem is a black community inside
New York.
• Most blacks all immigrated from
Southern states during the great
migration.
• Blacks lived mostly in Chicago,
Michigan and other parts in the
Northern Reign.

10. The Rhythm of the Beat!
• Harlem is a black community inside New York.
• A lot of things were born from the streets of
Harlem, one dealt with this new swinging music
that had everyone off their feet and dancing to
the vibes of this “jazzy” music.
• Life was nothing but a big movement either by
shaking they’re hips or putting a pep in their
step.

13. ~Swing that body~
• Jazz was alive and living through the
streets of Harlem.
• There was know stopping it, this new
sensation had everyone on their feet
jumping, popping and gliding.
• Music was the life of those that lived
in Harlem.

16. Artist
• Duke Ellington- Pianist
• Langston Hughes- Trumpeter
• Fats Waller- Pianist
• Jelly Roll Morton- Bandleader
• Willie “The Lion” Smith- Pianist (one of
the greatest practitioners of the genre
from its Golden Age, c. 1920 – 1943.)

19. Life in the New Age
• From then to now life in jazz has
expanded tremendously. Jazz has
sprouted all around the world, mostly
found in clubs, but its still very much
alive.

21. Poetry
By: Wageh Wadi

23. Bontemps, Arna
He was born Alexandria,Louisana,but moved
with family to Las Vegas when he was 3.
After graduating from pacific union college in
1923,he took a teaching job in the harlem
section of new york.Were he became an
African American literary artist.
He was close friends with Langston Hughes.
Arna,Bontemps was a
poet,novelist,historian,anthologist and
archivist,he preserved black culture heritage.

25. Countee Cullen
The most representative voice of Harlem
renaissance.
When his Grandmother and guardian died he
didn’t have no one at the age of was taken by
Reverend Frederick A. Cullen the Master of Salem
Methodist Episcopal church.
He entered the black politics and culture in The United
States.
Later on he was elected president of the Harlem
chapter of the National Association for the
Advancment of colored people.

27. Langston Hughes
Was recognized as a important literary
figure during the 1920’s a period know as
the Harlem Renaissance because of the number of
black writers.
Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald
Tribune in 1926 at the age of 24.
Nevertheless, Hughes, more than any other black
poet or writer, recorded faithfully the nuances of
black life and its frustrations.

29. Comparison
Langston Hughes was first recognized as an important literary figure during the
1920s.
At the height of the Black Renaissance, Lewis Grandison
Alexander was an active poet, actor, director of plays, and
costume designer.

31. Comparison
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen was perhaps the most
representative voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
Alice Dunbar
July 19, 1875 - September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist and
political activist.

33. Comparison
Arna Bontemps
Like his close friend Langston Hughes and their fellow writers in the Harlem
Renaissance, Arna Bontemps explored African-American experience in a
wide variety of genres.
(April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and
novelist.

34. Harlem Renaissance
Intellectuals
by
Peter Moisan

37. Alain Locke
(Harlem)
Alain Locke was a educator
that taught all over the
place. These are some of the
places he taught at:
*Harvard University
*Fisk University
*French Oriental Archaeological Society
*and Many more

40. Montgomery T. Gregory
(Harlem)
Montgomery Gregory used to worked
with Alain Locke in creating the
Styles Liberty club. Montgomery
also was a:
*dramatist
*educator
*social philosopher and activist
*historian
*the leading Figure,
in the National Negro Theater Movement.

43. Charles Johnson
(Harlem)
Charles Johnson was a professor
at the University of Washington,
also the author of “Middle Passage”.
Charles has received the Academy
award in Literature.

46. Steve Jobs
(modern)
Vs
Alain Locke
(Harlem)
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple and the
co-founder as well. unlike Alain Locke,
he did not go around the world
educating people in University’s. Steve
Jobs instead made a computer to do it
for you.

49. Bill Gates
(modern)
Vs
Charles Johnson
(Harlem)
Bill Gates is the Founder of Microsoft,
author, and philanthropies. Unlike Charles
Johnson, Gates did not teach in any University,
Bill Gates was actually kicked out of Harvard.
Both Gates and Johnson did write books, but Gates’s
books are all about computers (PC’S) and Johnson's
were all about African American freedom’s.

52. Masatoshi Koshiba
(modern)
Vs
Montgomery T. Gregory
(Harlem)
Masatoshi Koshiba is a neutrino astrophysics,
he has graduated from University of Tokyo and
has a masters in Physics. Much unlike Montgomery
Gregory, Masatoshi has been awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize. Both do teach but Masatoshi’s class is alot
harder than Gregory’s.

54. Harlem Renaissance
Art
By
Tia Hardy

55. Tamara de Lempicka
She was a Polish Art Deco painter and the firs
first women artist to be a glamour
star. Most of her paintings where nude
portraits and she became a stronger
painter when her husband couldn’t find
a stable job to support her and the
kids

56. Tamara de Lempicka
Koukla Carolyn
In both of these paintings both painters painted or drew a
flower with great details. Mrs. Lempicka painting is very busy as
for Mrs. Carolyn is very plain.

57. Picasso
Was a spanish painter and a sculptor
who is best known as a co-founder
of the Cubist movement.

58. Picasso
Text

59. George Barque
Was a French painter and sculptor.
Who also worked with Picasso to
develop the art movement known as
Cubism.

60. George Barque Marcos Peinemann
These to paintings are really different but the art work in both
of them are kind of the same because

61. Harlem Reniassance
African American
Impact
By
Jerrell Meads, Peter Mosian,
Wageh Wadi, Tia Hardy