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Article: The Harlem Renaissance?(TEST YOURSELF)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 12, 2007
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Hot nights and cool jazz ... steamy sidewalks and snappy dressers ... the lilt of gentle laughter and the penetrating wall of blues music ... That was Harlem in the 1920s and early 1930s--a place that pulsated night and day with excitement, promise, glitter, and joy. Some of the greatest African American poets, novelists, actors, and thinkers called this New York City neighborhood home. The cultural explosion there was so great that the period became known as the Harlem Renaissance. (Renaissance is a French word that means "rebirth.") Below are lust a few of the people who made Harlem come alive.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes moved to Harlem in 1926. ...