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Began with mid-class African Americans migrating from Black Bohemia to Harlem
P
oetry: Claude McKay’s collection
Harlem Shadows
in 1922 and Jean Toomer’s
Crane
in 1923
Charles Spurgeon Johnson formed
Opportunity
,
the National Urban League magazine
Carl Van
Vechten
– fiction works stirred white interest in cultural life of H
arlem
Cotton Club – clubs specifically for whites that wanted to experience black culture w/o having to interact with blacks
Stage -
Playwright Willis Richardson,
Paul Robeson
Art -
Aaron Douglas,
often called as “the Father of Black American Art,”
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The Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
A. Phillip Randolph
Louis Armstrong
Gatsby Plans
Bibliography