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AA culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harlem renaissance, definition, purpose, examples of participants | pivotal African American cultural, social, and artistic movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s Langston Hughes was poet that helped expand black culture |
| Define jazz | a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm |
| Define blues | melancholic music of African American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US |
| Main focus of the NAACP in the 1920s | combating racial injustice through anti-lynching campaigns |