TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Sherri L.
AU  - Foley,Tim
TI  - What was the Harlem Renaissance?
T2  - What was?
SN  - 9780593225905
AV  - F128.68.H3 S65 2021
U1  - 974.7 SMI 23
KW  - Harlem Renaissance
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - African Americans
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African American arts
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; What Was the Harlem Renaissance? -- Welcome to Harlem! -- Changing Times -- On with the Show! -- A Night to Remember -- New Voices -- All That Jazz -- Artists of the Renaissance -- Stars of Stage and Screen -- The End . . . and After -- Timelines; Ages 8-12; Penguin Workshop
N2  - "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 L. 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"--
ER  -