Harlem
Jazz renaissance locale
Harlem is a neighborhood in northern Manhattan, New York City, historically the cultural capital of Black America.
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s produced landmark achievements in literature, music, and art.
Harlem remains associated with jazz, African American culture, and urban life: uptown Harlem, a Harlem brownstone.
The name appears in expressions like Harlem shake and Harlem Globetrotters.
- Louis ArmstrongPioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
- Billie Holiday"Strange Fruit" vocalist
- Charlie ParkerBebop alto saxophone innovator
- Count BasieKansas City bandleader
Ella Fitzgerald · Cab Calloway · bebop · swing · big band · Cotton Club · Savoy Ballroom · Apollo Theater
NYC's densest borough
- Sugar HillNorthern Manhattan neighborhood
- brownstoneSandstone-faced urban dwelling
- rowhouseAdjoined urban dwelling unit
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
bodega · community · residential · uptown · subway · gentrification · block party · stoop
- Jacob LawrenceAmerican narrative painter
- Cotton ClubLegendary Harlem jazz venue
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
- literatureBody of written works
Zora Neale Hurston · W.E.B. Du Bois · Marcus Garvey · poetry · art movement · intellectual · creativity · expression
Vast collective relocation
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- riotViolent public disturbance
redlining · rent strike · Malcolm X · activism · segregation · integration · landmark · preservation
U.S. ethnic identity category
- soul foodTraditional Black Southern cuisine
- gospel musicChristian songs with strong harmony
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- identityWho someone is
traditions · barbershop · double dutch · street fashion · spoken word · hip-hop · graffiti · murals
Duke Ellington
- Louis ArmstrongPioneering jazz trumpeter, singer
- Billie Holiday"Strange Fruit" vocalist
- Charlie ParkerBebop alto saxophone innovator
Ella Fitzgerald · Count Basie · Cab Calloway · bebop · swing · big band · Cotton Club · Savoy Ballroom · Apollo Theater · speakeasy
Manhattan
NYC's densest borough
- Sugar HillNorthern Manhattan neighborhood
- brownstoneSandstone-faced urban dwelling
- rowhouseAdjoined urban dwelling unit
tenement · bodega · community · residential · uptown · subway · gentrification · block party · stoop · fire escape
Langston Hughes
- Jacob LawrenceAmerican narrative painter
- Cotton ClubLegendary Harlem jazz venue
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
Zora Neale Hurston · W.E.B. Du Bois · Marcus Garvey · literature · poetry · art movement · intellectual · creativity · expression · 1920s
Great Migration
Vast collective relocation
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
riot · redlining · rent strike · Malcolm X · activism · segregation · integration · landmark · preservation · legacy
African-American
U.S. ethnic identity category
- soul foodTraditional Black Southern cuisine
- gospel musicChristian songs with strong harmony
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
identity · traditions · barbershop · double dutch · street fashion · spoken word · hip-hop · graffiti · murals · Nuyorican
- New YorkManhattan, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn
- City NeighborhoodsChinatown, Little Italy, SoHo, Greenwich Village, French Quarter
- ManhattanChelsea, SoHo, Chinatown, Yorkville, Washington Heights
- New York historyEllis Island, Tammany Hall, Erie Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
- Black NeighborhoodsCompton, Watts, Bed-Stuy, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crenshaw
- PoemsThe Raven, Ozymandias, Invictus, Paradise Lost, Beowulf
HarlemLower Manhattan
Southern tip of island borough
Wall Street · SoHo · Tribeca · Greenwich Village · Lower East Side
HarlemUpper East Side
Wealthy Manhattan residential district
Park Avenue · Wall Street · Fifth Avenue · Greenwich Village · Bel Air
HarlemUpper East Side
Wealthy Manhattan residential district
Park Avenue · Fifth Avenue · Tribeca · Wall Street · Greenwich
- Harlem GlobetrottersShowman basketball exhibition squad
- Harlem ShakeSpasmodic internet dance craze
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
- Spanish HarlemManhattan's historic Latino enclave
- East HarlemUpper Manhattan Latino neighborhood