| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Locke | New Negro, spiritual age for Harlem Ren |
| Charles S. Johnson | Oppurtunity |
| Dubois | Niagara Movement, NAACP |
| Dubois | Crisis Magazine |
| Garvey | UNIA, The Negro World |
| Garvey | Back to Africa movement |
| Hughes | travel, no education |
| Dubois | rich |
| James Weldon | Book of American Negro Poetry |
| Hughes | most prolific |
| Cullen | not black writer stereotype, broad renaissance |
| Cullen | subtle writings |
| McKay | Jamaican, angry writings |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws against blacks |
| Plessy vs. Feguson | seperate but equal |
| Great Migration | 175,000 (3/4)blacks move to Northen jobs |
| Jazz Age | 1920s |
| Swing | 1930s |
| Bebop | 1940s |
| Cool Jazz | 1950s |
| Jazz Fusion | 1960s |
| Traits of Jazz | indiginous to America, swing pulse, individuality |
| Roots | slaves, blue, brass bands |
| Birth of blues | 8 or 12 bar strain, first stanza repeated |
| Brass bands | 1880s dance/concert, play rags |
| Ragtime piano | heavy syncopation, no blues, funerals |
| Jass | derogatory |
| Cradle of Jazz | New Orleans, storyville district |
| Armstrong | Satchmo, replaces King Oliver, Chicago |
| ODJB recorded | NY 1917 |
| Kid Ory/Sunshine | first black recording |
| Creole Jazz | 1923 |
| King Louis | aint misbehavin |
| Bessie Smith | empress, street singer, vaudeville, crazy blues |
| Fitzgerald | queen of scat |
| Holiday | lynching song |
| Ellington | cotton club, jungle style. pulitzer prize |
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