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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
THE GREAT MIGRATION 1910-1920 – 100,000s of African Americans
moved North in search of jobs By the end of the decade, 40% lived in cities Racial tensions escalated
KKK on the rise 25 urban race riots erupted
AFRICAN AMERICAN GOALS Fight racial violence
NAACP W.E.B Du Bois
Led Protests The Crisis
Platform raising awareness for civil rightsAntilynching laws
Find their voiceMarcus Garvey
Believed in a separate society for African Americans
Left a powerful legacy Newly awaked black pride The “New Negro”
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE BLOSSOMS Harlem
Neighborhood in New York
1920s – the world’s largest urban black community “black capital of America”
Harlem RenaissanceLiterary & artistic
movement celebration African American culture
Harlem
AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS
Well-educated, middle class African Americans
Wrote about being black in a white world
Claude McKay Novelist, poet, Jamaican immigrant Poems expressed pain & strain of life Militant writing
Langston Hughes Missouri-born Movement’s best known poet Poems described the difficult lives of
working-class
AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMERS During the 20s, African Americans in the
performing arts won large followings Including white audiences
Many rose to stardom via acting, singing, dancing etc.
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JAZZ Jazz
Born in New OrleansBlend of instrumental
ragtime and vocal bluesLouis Armstrong
One of the most important and influential musicians in the history of jazz
Quickly spreadBecame the most
popular music for dancinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef
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