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

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