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  • White Flight
  • millions of white Americans left cities for the suburbs
  • millions of African Americans left rural South for urban areas
  • negative impact
  • Inner Cities
  • the sick stayed sick and the poor stayed poor
  • Urban Renewal
  • steps took to help the inner city slums

Important Events

  • Harlem Riot of 1943
  • six deaths and almost 600 arrests

Historical Background and Events

A Dream Deferred

  • Brown vs. Board of Education
  • Supreme Court decision in 1954
  • Segregation in schools is unconstitutional
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks 1955
  • challenged the legality of racial segregation
  • nonviolent civil disobedience

by Langston Hughes

  • Langston Hughes
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Criticized prejudice and divisions based on skin color
  • Powerful voice during a time of racism and injustice
  • Drawn to communism in the 1930's
  • alternative to racial prejudice in America
  • questioned by McCarthy in 1953
  • A Dream Deferred
  • Deferred dreams lead to social unrest
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • Champions the power of perusing dreams

The Importance of a dream deferred

  • Emmett Till
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Brown Vs. Board of education
  • Booker T Washington
  • A dream deferred

Cultural Aspects and Values A Dream Deferred represents

Political, Social and Economical aspects are present

  • Social
  • discrimination
  • Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Jim Crow Laws

The ways people were influenced and how it transformed their life

I think that minorities were influenced by this poem because it persuaded them to chase their dreams. It could have transformed their life by making them stand up for what they want and believe in. It could also make them feel like they can do anything if they take initiative.

Sources

What Long Term Impact The Poem Had

Shmoop Editorial Team. "Harlem (Dream Deferred)." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.

Shmoop Editorial Team. "Langston Hughes Timeline of Important Dates." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 16 Feb. 2016.

"Post–World War II: 1946–60." <i>- Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages</i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.

"Booker T. Washington Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 18 Feb. 2016. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.

"Brown v. Board of Education." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.

Sun, Jackson. "Jim Crow Laws Denied Blacks Dignity, Vote - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report." Jim Crow Laws Denied Blacks Dignity, Vote - October 1960 - Civil Rights - A Jackson Sun Special Report. N.p., n.d. Web. Summer 2003.

Conformity and Non-Conformity in the 1950's

A Dream

Differed is one of the most powerful and iconic poems of modern times. One of its line is now the title of one of the most famous plays of all time: A Raisin In The Sun

  • Non-Conformity
  • Harlem renaissance was a place to express yourself and celebrate culture
  • Conformity
  • Levittowns
  • pressure for people to conform
  • advertising
  • money to spend on the newest items

A Dream Differed was written in 1951, at the height of when Jim Crow laws were in place in the southern United States, this poem was also written from an African-American perspective so the poem showed his side of the issue

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