1. How does the Media influence society today?
social-media-and-society

2. Does the media influence social conflict and change?
We‘re going to look at this question using evidence and examples from the 1920s.
What role did the media play in the Harlem Renaissance? 
How did the media contribute to public opinion during conflicts such as Prohibition and the Scopes Trial? 
Did the media create a divide in society over youth culture in the 1920s?

3. Today: The Harlem Renaissance
U6T10 - I can describe the historical context behind the Harlem Renaissance. U6T11 - I can describe how the media both contributed to and reflected the social changes of the Harlem Renaissance.

4. Percentage of African Americans in the Total population of the United States - 1890

5. Why move north?
More discrimination in the South than in the North (though the North had discrimination too)
Basic civil rights were denied African Americans in the South and their lives were often in danger.
Wages in the South were low and working conditions poor.
Education possibilities in the South were limited for African Americans.
Opportunities for African Americans to achieve prominence were greater in the North
Jobs were growing rapidly in Northern factories because of war production.

6. What pattern does African American settlement follow in NYC?7 8 6 5
The “Trek Northward”
What pattern does African American settlement follow in NYC?
Give students “The Trek Northward” a map of Manhattan and most of New York City, then ask them to determine where and when African Americans lived there. They should be able to determine that their introduction was into lower Manhattan in the mid-nineteenth century, and that there was a slow migration northward to Greenwich Village, midtown, and the San Juan Hill area southwest of Central Park by the turn of the century, and finally that there was a jump over the park to Harlem (first in 1905) in substantial numbers by Continue to relate the lesson to today’s world by asking students what they know about
Harlem now and why they think African Americans developed this largely homogeneous community. Point out the advantages that such a cultural support system
has while people get accustomed to a new way of life, and that the tight cultural community in Harlem was vital to the growth of the Harlem Renaissance. 4 2 1 3

7. After WW1
Soldiers and nurses who had gone abroad during World War I returned home angry and frustrated that white strangers in Europe treated them with greater equality than did white Americans
Increasing numbers of young African Americans had become better educated and better informed since migrating to the North.

8. Harlem Renaissance
When most talented black artists came to express their African American experiences through music, literature, art, etc. African American culture is celebrated and brought into the mainstream.
The Great Migration
Tension in Cities
Early Civil Rights
Harlem Renaissance
At a time when racism and social and political injustices were part of the fabric of American society, these artists through their work expressed a strong cultural pride and a burning desire for Political and social equality.)

9. Palmer Hayden: Midsummer Night in Harlem, 1938

10. Savoy Ballroom Cotton Club:
Cotton Club:

11. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes - "Poet Laureate of Harlem“
Zora Neale Hurston – wrote about the courageous struggles of Af.Am living in the rural South in the early 1800s

12. Painters of the Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas – paintings shaped by African culture and jazz music
Palmer Hayden – paintings of daily life in Harlem.

13. Musicians of the Harlem Renaissance
Cab Calloway - singing ability and showmanship won him steady gigs at the famous Cotton Club
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - Ellington's orchestra landed a job as the house band at the racially segregated Cotton Club.
Fletcher Henderson - earned respect for jazz from the national public and from the Talented Tenth, who often disregarded jazz tunes for not being "serious" music.
Bessie Smith - known as the "Empress of the Blues"

14. Actors of the Harlem renaissance
Paul Robeson - achieved spectacular success in stage and film roles that had previously been off limits to black actors
Evelyn Preer - Lauded as "the Race's most famous and most versatile actress," Evelyn Preer was often at the center of the most provocative investigations of black stereotypes on the big screen
Both broke racial barriers in acting

15. Activists of the Harlem Renaissance
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - founder and editor of The Crisis, the flagship publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey - founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Its goal: to promote self-reliance among African Americans and solidarity among blacks worldwide.

16. Today’s Task:
Identify examples of media that could be considered either contributors to or reflections of the Harlem Renaissance. What does “contributors to” mean? What does “reflections of” mean?

17. Today’s Task
What is the main idea or feeling you get from reading, seeing, or hearing this piece?
Did this CONTRIBUTE to the Harlem Renaissance or REFLECT what was already happening?
Support your answer with evidence from the document.
Document A –
Document B -
Document C -
Document D -

18. Source D

19. Source C

20. Source B: http://artsedge. kennedy-center
Source A (scroll down):