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Grade 5 Social Studies · World 3: War and Prosperity · Level 29
The Harlem Renaissance
Describe Langston Hughes and the movement.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 29
- During and after the war, many Black families left the South for northern cities, for jobs and to escape Jim Crow laws. This move is called the Great Migration.
- Many settled in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City. Writers, painters, and musicians gathered there. A renaissance is a time of new art and ideas.
- Langston Hughes became its best-known poet. Hughes wrote about everyday Black Americans, and put the beat of jazz and blues into poems.
- One poem by Hughes begins with a short, proud line. It says that Black Americans are part of America too.
- Zora Neale Hurston collected folk tales and wrote novels. Together, these artists showed the country the talent and pride that unfair laws tried to hide.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS5H2.b — Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).