1. Topic: Harlem Renaissance
SS.912.A.5.10 & SS.912.A.5.6
EQ: How did the Great Migration lead to the Harlem Renaissance?

2. Bellringer
Students, answer the three questions provided to you on the half sheet at the opening of class. You will have 5 minutes to complete.

3. Question 1: What do the philosophies of these three African American leaders suggest?
African Americans believed that racial equality could not be achieved in the United States.
Only Booker T. Washington felt that whites would accept African Americans as equal
Conditions were generally acceptable to the African American community as they were.
Frustrations with continuing inequality led African Americans to fight discrimination in different ways.

4. Question 2: What did African-American writers, artists, and musicians hope to achieve during the Harlem renaissance?
To display their ability as so conscientious workers in the workplace
To show that the pursuit of material success can often lead to tragedy.
To demonstrate that African Americans could produce great works of literature and art
To reveal that conditions for African Americans in the South were almost as hard as in the North.

5. Question 3: Why was there racial unrest in Northern cities after World War 1?
African Americans ad been given the right to vote for the first time.
African American baseball players were being allowed to play on previously all white teams.
The arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Europe caused tensions with African Americans
The migration of African Americans and returning African American veterans had created greater competition for jobs and housing.

6. The great migration overview video (2:17)

7. Background - teacher led “I do”
The Great Migration
The Movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1915 and 1930
Failure of Reconstruction and enactment of voting restrictions and other laws limiting African Americans (segregation).
Life in the North
Not perfect, but different from the South
Created businesses, neighborhoods, and political organizations
Harlem New York became a center for African American culture

8. Student collaborative task: “we/they do” –
In groups/pairs, Read the letters to the “Chicago Defender” and read the migration poetry & songs. Complete the graphic organizer and Discuss which changes in technology, society and world events were most significant and essential in setting the stage for the "Great Migration" of African Americans to the North.
Answer the following question:
Without which factors would this migration not have happened?
What role does the 19th Amendment play in the Harlem Renaissance?

9. Let’s Review the Bellringer questions:

10. Question 1: What do the philosophies of these three African American leaders suggest?
African Americans believed that racial equality could not be achieved in the United States.
Only Booker T. Washington felt that whites would accept African Americans as equal
Conditions were generally acceptable to the African American community as they were.
Frustrations with continuing inequality led African Americans to fight discrimination in different ways.

11. Question 2: What did African-American writers, artists, and musicians hope to achieve during the Harlem renaissance?
To display their ability as so conscientious workers in the workplace
To show that the pursuit of material success can often lead to tragedy.
To demonstrate that African Americans could produce great works of literature and art
To reveal that conditions for African Americans in the South were almost as hard as in the North.

12. Question 3: Why was there racial unrest in Northern cities after World War 1?
African Americans ad been given the right to vote for the first time.
African American baseball players were being allowed to play on previously all white teams.
The arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Europe caused tensions with African Americans
The migration of African Americans and returning African American veterans had created greater competition for jobs and housing.

13. You Do: Exit Ticket: Answer this Essential Question:
How did the Great Migration and the 19th Amendment impact society and decisions made by national & state governments?