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History II
Chapter 20 Section 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the 'Back to Africa' movement who promoted black pride |
| jazz | American musical art form based on improvisation the came to represent the Roaring Twenties |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz |
| Bessie Smith | blues singer known as the 'Empress of the Blues' |
| Harlem Renaissance | the flowering of African American arts and literature in 1920s N.Y. |
| Claude McKay | Harlem Renaissance writer who showed the struggle of ordinary African American |
| Langston Hughes | prolific writer who celebrated African American culture and life |
| Zora Neale Hurston | folklorist and author of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' |