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 "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.

• The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

  • This was also the era of the Harlem Renaissance, the period of African-American literary and artistic cultural growth from about 1917 to 1930.
  • Originating in the African-American neighborhood of Harlem in New York, the Harlem Renaissance was fueled by the idea that intellect and the production of literature, art, and music could challenge pervading racial stereotypes and promote racial and social integration.

• American Modernism

  • According to Lawrence Levine, "Jazz was, or seemed to be the product of a new age…raucous, discordant…accessible, spontaneous…openly an interactive, participatory music. " Players drew influences from everyday street talk in Harlem, as well as from French Impressionist paintings.
  • Douglas influenced African-American visual arts, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.