1. The Great Migration & The Harlem Renaissance

2. What is the Great Migration?
Started in the beginning of the 1900’s
Involved the mass exodus of millions of African Americans from the South to the North
Over 1 million were estimated to have migrated north
Greatly influenced the Harlem Renaissance

3. Why migrate? Freedom Treatment Crop infestations
Technological Innovations
World War I
Racial backlash by whites
Job Opportunities
To prove their identity

4. Why Go North???
Fill up jobs
Political Freedoms
Better life

5. Advantages and Disadvantages
Freedom
Identity
Better chances for education
Formation of large communities
Disadvantages
People killed
Racism in north often just as bad as south
Poor schooling for large communities
False perception of “lots of opportunity”

6. How was the North Affected?
Population increase
Economy
Not welcomed in the beginning, even from some African Americans

8. How did the Great Migration affect the Harlem Renaissance?
Music
Art
Food
Civil Rights
Power of the People

9. The Harlem Renaissance
It was a cultural nationalistic movement caused by the GREAT MIGRATION
"originally called the “NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT”
"spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination."

10. Impact of the H.R.
Black Migration, south to north, changed their image from rural to urban, from peasant to sophisticate
A rich source for racial imagination and it freed the blacks from the establishment of past condition

11. Major Contributors to the H.R.
Langston Hughes
Writer: poetry, novels, music, short stories
W.E.B. DuBois
Socialist, Public Speaker
Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday
Musicians
Zora Neale Hurston
Writer: novels, poetry