THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The era gave rise to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “flappers", and “speakeasies".
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Poverty and starvation crippled the area, leading to its ironic nickname.
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The “color barrier” in major league sports was broken by Jackie Robinson.
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The era gave rise to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and “The Cotton Club".
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. The option which is true of the “Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s is D. the era gave rise to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and “The Cotton Club.” The term refers to Harlem becoming the center of culture during the 1920s, where many artists, writers, photographers, etc.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children’s books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. Play that Tune, Speak the Word!
Detailed explanation-3: -The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic flowering of the “New Negro” movement as its participants celebrated their African heritage and embraced self-expression, rejecting long-standing-and often degrading-stereotypes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Zora Neale Hurston was a scholar whose ethnographic research made her a pioneer writer of “folk fiction” about the black South, making her a prominent writer in the Harlem Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-5: -Contributing factors leading to the Harlem Renaissance were the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities, which concentrated ambitious people in places where they could encourage each other, and the First World War, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.