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The Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance
11 Ho Timmy, Jessica, Catherine, Audrey, Evelyne, Roxanne
African American Voices in the 1920s
Audrey, Catherine
Even though WWI is over, the Jim Crow law still gave African Americans’ a lot of problems. This is why the blacks decided to change the situation and get rid of segregation.
The Move North
African American Goals
- 1910 to 1920: Great Migration
- African Americans moved to the cities in North to search for jobs
- The cities didn’t welcome the blacks
- Lead to legal discrimination in mortgage lending practices.
Key Players
- NAACP
- The National Urban League tried to remove barriers to black employment.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, urged African American to protest against racial violence.
- Under the direction of W.E.B. DuBois, a founding member of the NAACP, 10,000 African American men marched in New York City to protest this violence.
- The Silent parade failed to persuade Wood Wilson to strengthen the protections for African-Americans.
James Weldon Johnson
- The leader of the NAACP, fought for African Americans legislation right
- Also a poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary
- he wrote works such as God’s Trombones, a series of sermons like poems, and Black Manhattan
- a look at black cultural life in New York City during the Roaring Twenties.
- The NAACP continued its campaign through antilynching organizations that had been established in 1892 by Ida B. Wells. Gradually,
- the number of lynchings dropped.
- The NAACP represented the new, more militant voice of African Americans.
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Harlem Renaissance
- He is a young trumpet player who joined the Creole Jazz Band.
- His talent rocketed him to stardom in the jazz world.
- In 1924, he joined Fletcher Henderson’s band.
- the most important big jazz band in New York City.
- Jazz quickly spread to such cities as Kansas City, Memphis, and New York City.
- became popular music for dancing.
- a female blues singer, also the most outstanding vocalist of the decade.
- achieved enormous popularity and in 1927 became the highest-paid black artist in the world
- “Saint Louis Blues” is the song that made her famous
- a period from the end of WWI to the start of the Great Depression. 1920-1930
- primarily a literary and artistic movement, then also involved music, theater and politics.
- golden age for African Americans artists and writers
Roxanne, Evelyne
Langston Hughes
- the movement’s best known poet.
- poems describe lives of poor Africans Amiercans + talks about equality, racial justice, and democracy.
- his work influence generations of African American writers
Louis Armstrong
- gravelly-voiced
- create a new form of music
- Was the only Black Jazz musician to publicly speak out against school segregation in 1957.
Jessica, Timmy
- from August 8th, 1901 to July 6th, 1971
- mainly a trumpet player
- joined King Joe Oliver’s group in Chicago in his early twenties
- this group later became the Creole Jazz Band
- famous for his sense of rhythm and improvising skills
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