Art and Literature of the 1920s Answers

Read the poem by Langston Hughes (1926).I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes.Nobody’ll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.–"I, Too,”Langston Hughes

Study the graph showing the cities that benefited from migration.Which city had the largest increase in population of African Americans in 1920?

Which description could be used to classify the modernism artistic style?

Which statements describe Georgia O’Keeffe? Select three options.

Which scenario is an example of segregation under Jim Crow laws?

What distinct contribution to American literature did authors such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston make?

Which economic conditions in the North contributed to the Great Migration? Select three options.

Which statement is an accurate characterization of art during the Harlem Renaissance?

Read the quote from The Chicago Defender."Go to it, my Southern Brothers, the North needs you. Better a thousand times, even if it was true, to run chances of being nipped by the fingers of Jack Frost than to shake off this mortal coil at the end of the lynchers’ rope, or to the crackling of the lynchers’ fire brand.”–The Defender