You can do as many of these as you want. I will decide how much extra credit it is worth based on your work.
1. Click on the link for Great Migration letters. Pick one letter and write a response as if were the person it was written to. Make sure you are writing within the HISTORICAL CONTEXT and USE YOUR IMAGINATION!
2. Compare and contrast the portrayals of the African American experience in Billie Holiday performing Strange Fruit and Zora Neale Hurston - Uncle Bud.
3. Read "Harlem: The Culture Capital" - excerpt from The New Negro, an Interpretation 1925.
List 5 things mentioned in the article that we talked about in class and 5 new things you learned from reading the article.
4. Compare and contrast the idea of Manifest Destiny to African American slavery.
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Dear students, This is to provide you with the support necessary to excel in my class and to give you information that I think is interesting and relevant to what we discuss in class, but don't have time to cover. p.s. I BELIEVE IN YOU.
About Me
Sparknotes
Harlem Renaissance Websites
- Billie Holiday performing Strange Fruit
- Zora Neale Hurston - Uncle Bud
- Zora Neale Hurston work song
- Timelines
- Josephine Baker - Princess Tam Tam
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
- Paul Robeson - Nobody Knows
- Countee Cullen
- Foreword to New Negro, an Interpretation, 1925
- "Harlem: The Culture Capital" - excerpt from The New Negro, an Interpretation 1925
- The Making of African American Identity
- Great Migration letters
- FIRE! magazine
- Harlem Renaissance Audio Recordings
- Josephine Baker video
- African-American Migration
Who is your favorite Harlem Renaissance writer?
Anais Nin
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