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"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....
6) The Twentieth century and the Harlem Renaissance: a history of black people in America, 1880-1930
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Discusses Black history during the early decades of the twentieth century, profiles such notables as W.E.B. DuBois, George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong.