Monday 10-19-15

Today we will be looking at the effects of the Great Migration on American Culture.

Great Migration:

-Racial Tension: Red Summer of 1919

Harlem - the capital of African American Culture and activism

Harlem Renaissance:
-Common Theme - defiance or resistance of white prejudice

The New Negro:

W.E.B. DuBois - "The Crisis"

Marcus Garvey:

Famous Harlem Renaissance Figures:

Writers:
-Langston Hughes
   -The Negro Speaks of Rivers
   -"I, Too"

-Zora Neale Hurston
-Claude McKay

Art:
-Jacob Lawrence

Performer:
-Paul Robeson

Musicians:
-Louis Armstrong
-Duke Ellington
-Bessie Smith