Renaissance
A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a ‘rebirth’ of Greco-Roman culture. Usually divided into an Italian Renaissance, from roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century, and a Northern Renaissance 1400-1600.
Great Migration
An early 20th century mass movement of African Americans from the Deep South to the Industrial North, particularly Chicago.
Harlem Renaissance
Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.
Chicago Black Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished in Chicago.
segregation
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
Jim Crow
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
migration
The relocation of people from one place to another.
kitchenette
a small kitchen or part of a room equipped as a kitchen.
Race Riots
a public outbreak of violence between two racial groups in a community
WPA Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project (1935-43) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, and the largest of the New Deal art projects.
