1. The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance

2. The Great Migration Roots of the migration
Between 1910 and 1930 hundreds of thousands of blacks left behind the racial discrimination of the south and moved north looking for better opportunities
Northern cities did not always welcome the influx of blacks, resulting in over 25 race riots in 1919

3. The Great Migration

4. The Great Migration
The NAACP, founded by W.E.B. duBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and others, led the fight to secure black rights in Congress.
Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, organize the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and led a “back to Africa” movement.

5. The Harlem Renaissance
A literary and cultural movement led by well educated, middle class African Americans
Harlem Renaissance writers celebrated the New Negro, emphasizing their African heritage and racial pride, as well as economic independence

6. The Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay urged Blacks to fight discrimination. His writings expressed the pain of life in the ghetto.
Langston Hughes was a poet, playwright and author whose writings expressed the everyday lives of working class blacks set to jazz and blues tempo.

7. The Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston was an author an anthropologist whose writings celebrated the simple folkways and portrayed the lives of poor, uneducated southern blacks
Countee Cullen was a writer whose classical style works probed the meaning of Black life

8. The Harlem Renaissance
Performers
Paul Robeson was one of the best known African American actors of the time
Known for doing Shakespearean plays
Because of racial and political persecution in the U. S., he moved to Europe

9. The Harlem Renaissance
Performers
Bessie Smith was a jazz vocalist who achieved enormous popularity and became the highest paid black entertainer in the world by 1927

10. The Harlem Renaissance
Performers
Duke Ellington was a renowned composer and musician
He was a frequent performer at the Savoy and the Cotton Club, Harlem nightclubs which were also popular with whites