What Was the Harlem Renaissance? Audiobook Libro.fm

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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 24hoursaday 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 Americansthe poetry of Langston Hughes the novels of Zora Neale Hurston the sculptures of Augusta Savage and that brandnew music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it Author Sherri Smith traces Harlems history all the way to its seventeenthcentury roots and explains how the earlytwentiethcentury Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance