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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
ISBN-100593225902
ISBN-139780593225905
eBay Product ID (ePID)21050076315
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhat Was the Harlem Renaissance?
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicBiography & Autobiography / Literary, People & Places / United States / African American, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / United States / 20th Century
IllustratorFoley, Tim, Yes
GenreJuvenile Nonfiction, History
AuthorWho HQ, Sherri L. Smith
Book SeriesWhat Was? Ser.
FormatDigest Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.4 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2021-020890
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromThird Grade
Grade ToSeventh Grade
Dewey Decimal974.7
SynopsisWhich of these facts are true? It was a time in the 1920s and 1930s when African American musicians, artists, and writers changed popular culture, The Black neighborhood of Harlem in New York City became the center of an exciting arts movement, Duke Ellington's jazz classic "Take the 'A' Train" refers to getting to Harlem by subway Book jacket., In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. 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 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. With 80 fun black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!