QUIZ: Art and Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Welcome to the Harlem Renaissance quiz! During the Great Migration (1910–1970), around 6 million Black people moved from the American South to the North seeking economic opportunity, education, and an escape from racial violence and oppression. This mass migration transformed American cities like Baltimore, Washington, DC, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and, of course, New York.

The Harlem Renaissance marks a vibrant period during the 1920s and 1930s when Black artists, thinkers, musicians, writers, and poets converged in one neighborhood of New York City, and made it into the cultural hub of the United States. Though Harlem supplied the heartbeat of Black intellectualism at the time, Black art, literature, and music blossomed in many of the destination cities of the Great Migration, making the Harlem Renaissance a nationwide movement.

How well do you know the art and artists of the Harlem Renaissance presented in this quiz? Be careful: the quiz is not easy!