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Marcus Garvey and the Harlem Renaissance
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Marcus Garvey and the Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
He urged African-Americans to be proud of their race and to return to Africa.
In 1922, Garvey was arrested for mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in the Black Star line.
After Marcus Harvey died he became Jamaica's first national hero.
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The Harlem Renaissance was cultural movement that spanned the 1920's. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement". The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have spanned from 1919 to the mid 1930's. Many ideas lived on much longer. The Harlem Renaissance was the period in which the African-American achievements of art, music and literature flourished
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur and orator who helped find the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319/videos
Harlem Renaissance Combinations
Black urban migration combined with trends in American society as a whole during the 1920's. The rise of racial black intellectuals all contributed to the particular styles and success of black artists during this time period.
Harlem Renaissance Arts
Harlem Renaissance Music
Harlem Renaissance Literature
Many black artists became committed to addressing the issue of racial equality in their work due to their own bitter personal experiences.
With the Renaissance in full swing, jazz became the "people's" music despite some trouble in being accepted by the black "cultural elite"
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• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml
• : http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/Harlem-Renaissance-music.html#ixzz2mKZ1js3c
This movement was an unprecedented outburst among black writers and their creative activity. Their literary arts were due to their efforts of writing and their heritage. They would use their unique culture as a means toward re-defining African-American expression.
Black cultural elite: improved the situations of the black working class
• http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/Harlem-Renaissance-music.html#ixzz2mKY8heDs
• http://www.askart.com/AskART/interest/black_american_artists_1.aspx?id=33
• http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/african_american_4.html
• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/harlem-renaissance.html
• http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319/videos