1. Bell Ringer & Vocab Content Vocab Academic Vocab Questions to Answer:
What people do you see?
What objects do you see?
What colors do you see?
What actions/activities do you see?
Based on what you have observed, list what you may infer from this painting.
Content Vocab
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Clause McKay
Zora Neal Hurston
Marcus Garvey
NAACP
Back to Africa Movement
Academic Vocab
Discrimination

3. During Reconstruction
Review
During Reconstruction
Reconstruction led to many legal advances for African Americans such as the 13, 14, & 15 Amendments.
TRUE

4. During Reconstruction
Review
During Reconstruction
Not even during Reconstruction were African Americans voted into office in the South.
False

5. Review
After Reconstruction
Most African Americans were able to make a decent living/income in the South.
False

6. TRUE Review After Reconstruction
KKK had support of local officials and terrorized anyone who voted Republican and African Americans.
TRUE

7. Lynching became a form of terrorism against African Americans
Review
After Reconstruction
Lynching became a form of terrorism against African Americans
TRUE

8. Review
After Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws were declared unconstitutional with the court case of Plessy v Ferguson
False

9. South equals Disenfranchisement
After Reconstruction the majority of Blacks still lived in the South.
poor tenant farmers or sharecroppers
The increasing racial tensions, segregation was getting harsher, lynchings were a growing problem, and the revived KKK only added to the sense of blacks had of being under constant threat.
Disenfranchisement=to deprive a person or organization of a privilege, immunity, or legal right, especially the right to vote

10. HARLEM
Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the center of the African American political, cultural, and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.

11. The Great Migration Great Migration:
After WWI, hundreds of thousands African Americans left the rural south and headed into industrial cities of the North

12. NY’s Harlem is the place to be!
Growing African American Middle Class developed as a result of improved educational and employment opportunities for African Americans in the North.
The Harlem section of New York became the center of this new African American class.

13. Harlem is Transformed
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before
After

14. Before Great Migration After Great Migration:
Harlem, New York

16. Checking for Understanding
What events and movements do you think may have helped lead to the Renaissance?
Great Migration

17. African Americans Inspires
Harlem Renaissance: African Americans created an environment that stimulated artistic development, racial pride, a sense of community, and political organization

18. Writers
Claude McKay - from Jamaica; shocked by racism in America; wrote boldly, defiantly about racism in two books of poetry
Langston Hughes - born in Missouri; leading writer of African American experience in America. Wrote about African American achievements.

19. What is this poem talking about?
Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Racism in America

20. What happens to a dream deferred?
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

22. Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston Wrote: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Celebrated the courage of African Americans in the South
Main characters in her novels were African American women– One of the first to do this

23. The artists, writers, and musician of the Harlem Renaissance will become role models for young African American children growing up in America. These children will later become the Civil Rights leaders of the 1950s

24. Checking for Understanding
What issue did Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neal Hurston promote?
African American Pride & Culture; Racism

25. Jazz, Blues, and the Theater
Jazz - improvisational music introduced by Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington had a ragtime sound
Many black musicians got their start at the Cotton Club, a famous Harlem nightclub.

27. Blues – soulful style of music that involved themes of love, poverty, oppression
Bessie Smith – famous blues singer; at one time the highest paid singer in U.S.

28. MUSIC

29. Drama
Josephine Baker

30. Elvis will sing this song in the 50s
Big Mama Thornton
You ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my door You ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my door You can wag your tail but Lord I ain't gonna feed you no more You told me you were high class, but I can see through that You told me you were high class, but I can see through that And daddy I know you ain't no real cool cat
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But don’t play whole song
Elvis will sing this song in the 50s

31. Checking for Understanding
Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, & Louis Armstrong are all musician associated with what artistic movement?
Harlem Renaissance

32. Themes of Harlem Renaissance Art
Glorification of Blackness
African-American History, Slavery Identity and Pride
Strength of African-American Community
Racism and Discrimination
Night Life
Family Life
Other Arts: dance, music, poetry

33. AARON DOUGLAS “ASPECTS OF NEGRO LIFE FROM SLAVERY TO RECONSTRUCTION”

34. Aaron Douglas “In an African Setting”

35. WILLIAM H. JOHNSON “GOING TO CHURCH”

36. William H. Johnson “Chain Gang”

37. Palmer Hayden “Jeunesse”

38. Archibald Motley “Street Scene in Chicago”

39. Archibald Motley “Blues”

40. African American Politics
The NAACP Battle Lynching
NAACP = National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Fought, often unsuccessfully, against discrimination
Published The Crisis
The main issue they fought for was anti-lynching laws (failed during 1920s and 30s)

41. NAACP wanted this stopped

42. Black Nationalism and Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey – a dynamic black leader from Jamaica
Lead the Back to Africa Movement
became very popular; argued for African American self-reliance.
Proposed a plan for black Americans to return to start a new country in Africa
Although the movement failed he did accomplish to promote Black Pride in America
He was eventually arrested and deported.
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43. Impact of the Harlem Renaissance
African American Art
NAACP
Shed light on racism
Jazz and Blues
Black Pride

44. Checking for Understanding
Why did the NAACP and Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” movement exist?
Discrimination against African Americans

45. Checking for Understanding
List 3 things the NAACP did
fight for legislation to protect African Americans.
work with anti-lynching organizations.
published The Crisis.

46. Checking for Understanding
Who was behind the Back to Africa Movement?
Marcus Garvey