What was the Harlem Renaissance? [What Was?]by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 831142 Available

Dewey: 974.7/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG Lexile: 910 F&P: X

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Subjects: Harlem Renaissance African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life|y20th century African American arts - New York (State) - New York|y20th century African Americans - Intellectual life|y20th century Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Intellectual life|y20th century New York (N.Y.) - Intellectual life|y20th century

Summary: 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 when African Americans excelled in the arts.