Harlem Hellfighters

Examples of Harlem Hellfighters in the following topics:

• Military Segregation

  • Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters," it was the first all-black regiment.

• America's Early Role

  • The Harlem Hellfighters fought as part of the French 16th Division, earning a unit Croix de Guerre for their actions at Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Sechault.

• The War in France

  • The 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantry Regiments served with distinction, while the 369th regiment became admiringly known as the Harlem Hellfighters.

• The Harlem Renaissance

  • The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Though the Harlem Renaissance was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Renaissance.
  • Many African-American soldiers who fought in segregated units during World War I, like the Harlem Hellfighters, came home to a nation whose citizens often did not respect their accomplishments.
  • A new way of playing the piano, called the Harlem Stride Style, emerged during the Harlem Renaissance and helped blur the lines between poor Negros and socially elite Negros.
  • Langston Hughes was a prominent novelist and poet who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance.

• The Call to Arms

  • He made an exception for African-American combat regiments who were used in used in French divisions, notably the Harlem Hellfighters, who earned a Croix de Guerre unit medal for actions with the French 16th Division at Chateau-Thierry, Sechault and Belleau Wood.

• The Harlem Renaissance

  • The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the United States that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Aaron Douglas was a notable artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • They lived together in Harlem and for the next several years, opened their home to an important, powerful circle of artists and writers we now call the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Alston's mural at the Harlem Hospital is a significant work of the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Discuss the characteristics, themes, and contributing factors of the Harlem Renaissance.

• The "New Negro"

  • "New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance, implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.
  • In 1916-17, Hubert Harrison and Negro league baseball star Matthew Kotleski founded the militant "New Negro Movement," which is also known as Harlem Renaissance .
  • This movement energized Harlem and beyond with its race-conscious and class-conscious demands for political equality, an end to segregation and lynching, as well as calls for armed self-defense when appropriate.
  • However, it found a new purpose and definition in the journalism, fiction, poetry, music, sculpture, and paintings of many figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
  • All Harlem Renaissance participants, regardless of their generational or ideological orientation in aesthetics or politics, shared at some level this sense of possibility.

• Literature

  • The Harlem Renaissance was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
  • Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.
  • The Harlem Renaissance spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s.
  • The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature," as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, was placed between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression).

• The Roaring Twenties

  • In literature, two popular movements or groups of writers arose: The Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance.
  • African-American literary and artistic culture developed rapidly during the 1920s under the banner of "The Harlem Renaissance," named for the historically black Harlem section of New York City.
  • Harlem also played a key role in the development of dance styles and the popularity of dance clubs.
  • With several famous entertainment venues such as the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club, people from all walks of life, races and classes came together in Harlem.
  • Duke Ellington led a renowned Jazz orchestra that frequently played the Cotton Club during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • The 1920s marked another significant development in American art, known as the Harlem Renaissance.
  • Sculptors associated with the Harlem Renaissance included Richmond Barthé, Augusta Savage, Elizabeth Catlett, Martin Puryear, Jerry Harris, Thaddeus Mosley, and Richard Hunt .
  • Discuss the early 20th century art movements, including American Realism, the Harlem Renaissance, Modern Classicist sculpture, and the landscape images of the Southwest.