"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 L. 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"--Provided by publisher.
Ages 8-12. Penguin Workshop.|||910L Lexile|||juvenile
by Sherri L. Smith ; illustrated by Tim Foley.
"16 pages of photos inside!"--Cover.
"An official WHO HQ book" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.1 1 516306.
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