Examples of Harlem Hellfighters in the following topics:
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- Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters," it was the first all-black regiment.
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- The Harlem Hellfighters fought as part of the French 16th Division, earning a unit Croix de Guerre for their actions at Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Sechault.
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- The 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantry Regiments served with distinction, while
the 369th regiment became admiringly known as the Harlem Hellfighters.
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Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
- Though the Harlem Renaissance
was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black
writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also
influenced by the Renaissance.
- Many African-American soldiers who fought in segregated
units during World War I, like the Harlem Hellfighters, came home to a nation
whose citizens often did not respect their
accomplishments.
- A new
way of playing the piano, called the Harlem Stride Style, emerged during the
Harlem Renaissance and helped blur the lines between poor Negros and socially elite Negros.
- Langston Hughes was a prominent novelist and poet who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance.
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- He made an exception for African-American combat regiments who
were used in used in French divisions, notably the Harlem Hellfighters, who
earned a Croix de Guerre unit medal for actions with the French 16th Division at
Chateau-Thierry, Sechault and Belleau Wood.
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- The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the United States that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
- Aaron Douglas was a notable artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
- They lived together in Harlem and for the next several years, opened their home to an important, powerful circle of artists and writers we now call the Harlem Renaissance.
- Alston's mural at the Harlem Hospital is a significant work of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Discuss the characteristics, themes, and contributing factors of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- "New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance, implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.
- In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
- This movement energized Harlem and beyond with its race-conscious and class-conscious demands for political equality, an end to segregation and lynching, as well as calls for armed self-defense when appropriate.
- However, it found a new purpose and definition in the journalism, fiction, poetry, music, sculpture, and paintings of many figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
- All Harlem Renaissance participants, regardless of their generational or ideological orientation in aesthetics or politics, shared at some level this sense of possibility.
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- The Harlem Renaissance was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
- Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.
- The Harlem Renaissance spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s.
- The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature," as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, was placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression).
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- In literature, two
popular movements or groups of writers arose: The Lost Generation and the
Harlem Renaissance.
- African-American
literary and artistic culture developed rapidly during the 1920s under the
banner of "The Harlem Renaissance," named for the historically black Harlem
section of New York City.
- Harlem also
played a key role in the development of dance styles and the popularity of
dance clubs.
- With several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo
Theater and the Cotton Club, people from all walks of life, races and classes
came together in Harlem.
- Duke Ellington led a renowned Jazz orchestra that frequently played the Cotton Club during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
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- The 1920s marked another significant development in American art, known as the Harlem Renaissance.
- Sculptors associated with the Harlem Renaissance included Richmond Barthé, Augusta Savage, Elizabeth Catlett, Martin Puryear, Jerry Harris, Thaddeus Mosley, and Richard Hunt .
- Discuss the early 20th century art movements, including American Realism, the Harlem Renaissance, Modern Classicist sculpture, and the landscape images of the Southwest.