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The Harlem Renaissance Holidays/seasonal content

The Great Migration 1910-1920 Why? Racial violence and economic discrimination Boll weevil infestation, floods, and droughts destroyed crops Many sharecroppers wanted something more

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois Urged blacks to protest racial violence “Thou Shall Not Kill” Non-violence protests Anti-lynching laws

Marcus Garvey Jamaican immigrant Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Believed blacks should build a separate society Promote African American businesses Called for an independent African nation and encouraged blacks to colonize Africa

Harlem Renaissance Harlem, upper west side of NYC; became world’s largest black urban community Harlem Renaissance: literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture

Writers Literary movement led by well educated, middle class African Americans Celebrated their heritage and their people’s folklore Claude McKay Jamaican immigrant, wrote poetry Resisting prejudice and discrimination Wrote what it’s like being black in a white dominated world

Writers Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Poetry followed rhythms of jazz and blues Lives of everyday black workers Zora Neale Hurston Novels, folklores, poetry Portrayed lives of poor, uneducated, southern blacks Celebrated the common person’s art form Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Jazz Age New Orleans, instrumental rag time and vocal blues Louis Armstrong Trumpet player Defining jazz: “man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know” Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington Jazz pianist and composer Bessie Smith Blues singer