CHAPTER 6 SECTION 3

The Harlem Renaissance

Ku Klux Klan

• Racist political group

• 5 Million Members in 1924

• Used violence against African Americans to influence politics.

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvcrsbliOo

Marcus Garvey

- Jamaican American

-- Founded UNIA United Negro Improvement Association

-- Believed that only solution for African Americans was a return to Africa

-- Started Nation of Liberia in Africa

-- Few Africans left the US

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ZSR0pfg5Y

NAACP

-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

-Organization that fought for rights of African Americans

-Voting Rights

-Anti Segregation

-Published Crisis magazine

-Still around today

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural Movement in the 1910s-1920s

Great Migration brought many African Americans to Northern Cities, including NYC

By the 1920s most of Harlem’s residence were African American

Music, Magazines, Artwork, Books

Langston Hughes

African American Poet

Wrote about the concerns of Black citizens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CUKyVrhPgM

Zora Neale Hurston

African American writer and film maker

Gave world a view of African American life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PANwrq_OuPM

The Lost Generation

Title given to Americans who lost belief in American Dream

Many saw great promise in ideas destroyed by WWII

Expatriates

Individuals who choose to live in a country other than their own.

Many Americans found Paris following the fighting of WWI

This is Le Dome, a popular hangout for Americans in Paris, France.

Materialistic

To be concerned with material goods

1920s

Cars, homes, clothes, jewelry

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