The Great Migration & The Harlem Renaissance
The Great Migration Pull Factors: Jobs Testimony, Letters Home Education Segregation not institutionalized in the North
The Great Migration Push Factors: Poverty Sharecropping Segregation Jim Crow Laws Violence Lynching “ This is the Racial Hierachy ” Voting Regulations Under Jim Crow: White Primary Grandfather Clause Literacy Tests Poll Tax
Race Riots: Red Summer 1919 Factors= Racial Tensions, Heat Chicago, Lake Michigan 5 days, rioting, murder, arson; 23 black/15 white killed, 500 wounded
Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921 Segregation — Greenwood and white Tulsa The Black Wall Street -Racial tensions surrounding prosperity Accusation of assault Standoff at the Courthouse Aftermath: 50 whites, 100/150 blacks dead; 800+ injured, millions in property damage
Populating Harlem
Harlem : A City Within a City
UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association Marcus Garvey : Militant Jamaican, Pan-Africanist, Self-Determinism
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes, 1920 I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawnswsn were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've see its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Early Jazz Louis ArmstrongDuke EllingtonCab Calloway
Bessie Smith Ma Rainey Ethel Waters the Women of Jazz
The Cotton Club
The Charleston & James P. Johnson
Frankie Manning & The Lindy Hop
Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1934 “ Cotton Club Stomp ” (1930)
“ Harlem Hellfighters ” James Reese Europe 369 th Infantry Regiment 1 st all-black US combat unit shipped overseas in WWI Band music + ragtime = jazz