What Was the Harlem Renaissance?, Sherri L. Smith
What Was the Harlem Renaissance?, Sherri L. Smith
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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

Author: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ

Series: What Was?

Narrator: Tashi Thomas

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/28/2021


Synopsis

In this audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.

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 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.

About The Author

Sherri L. Smith is the author of Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? and What Is the Civil Rights Movement? She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

Two details: 1. A lot of actors in the Harlem Renaissance, Ethel Waters and Josephine Baker 2. They talked about the Great Depression when people lose their money. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped with this. My favorite part was how they did the Shuffle Along musical. My least favorite part was the Great......more

Goodreads review by Tara

I love this series as an adult, but this is an especially good one. I have been familiar with some of the musical and visual artists of the era, but this enlightened me about the authors and historical circumstances that gave rise to the movement. Loved the addition of black and white photos at the......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I had heard of the Harlem Renaissance but didn't know much about it. This book filled in the details. It is a look at the many talented African-Americans who were part of a very important cultural movement in the early 20th century. I looked up more information on some of the people as well as pictu......more