{"product_id":"9780593225905","title":"What Was the Harlem Renaissance?","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this book from the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravel 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 80 fun black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!","brand":"Penguin Young Readers Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026997559536,"sku":"9780593225905","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593225905_p0.jpg?v=1763722094","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593225905","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}