What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ, Tim Foley

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Penguin Workshop
28 March 2022

General fiction (Children's&YA); History & the past: general interest (Children's&YA)

Series: What Was?

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!

By: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ
Illustrated by: Tim Foley
Imprint: Penguin Workshop
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 238g
ISBN: 9780593225912
ISBN 10: 0593225910
Series: What Was?
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 28 March 2022
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sherri L. Smith is the author of Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? and What Is the Civil Rights Movement? She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.