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Questions to Answer:What people do you see?What objects do you see?What colors do you see?
What actions/activities do you see?Based on what you have observed,
list what you may infer from this painting.
Content VocabHarlem Renaissance
Langston HughesClause McKay
Zora Neal HurstonMarcus Garvey
NAACPBack to Africa Movement
Academic VocabDiscrimination
Bell Ringer & Vocab
During Reconstruction
Reconstruction led to many
legal advances for African
Americans such as the 13, 14, &
15 Amendments.
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TRUE
During Reconstruction
Not even during
Reconstruction were African Americans voted into
office in the South.
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FALSE
Review After Reconstruction
Most African Americans
were able to make a decent
living/income in the South.FALSE
After Reconstruction
KKK had support of local officials and terrorized anyone who
voted Republican and African Americans.
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TRUE
ReviewAfter Reconstruction
Lynching became a
form of terrorism against African
AmericansTRUE
ReviewAfter Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws were declared
unconstitutional with the court
case of Plessy v FergusonFALSE
• After Reconstruction the majority of Blacks still lived in the South.
• poor tenant farmers or sharecroppers
• The increasing racial tensions, segregation was getting harsher, lynchings were a growing problem, and the revived KKK only added to the sense of blacks had of being under constant threat.
South equals Disenfranchisement
Disenfranchisement=to deprive a person or organization of a privilege, immunity, or legal right, especially the right to vote
Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, was the center of the African American political, cultural, and artistic movement in the 1920s and early 1930s.
HARLEM
The Great MigrationGreat Migration:• After WWI, hundreds
of thousands African Americans left the rural south and headed into industrial cities of the North
Great Migration:• After WWI, hundreds
of thousands African Americans left the rural south and headed into industrial cities of the North
• Growing African American Middle Class developed as a result of improved educational and employment opportunities for African Americans in the North.
• The Harlem section of New York became the center of this new African American class.
NY’s Harlem is the place to be!
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before After
Harlem is Transformed
Before Great
Migration
After Great Migration: Harlem, New York
• What events and movements do you think may have helped lead to the Renaissance?
• Great Migration
Checking for Understanding
• Harlem Renaissance: African Americans created an environment that stimulated artistic development, racial pride, a sense of community, and political organization
African Americans Inspires
• Claude McKay - from Jamaica; shocked by racism in America; wrote boldly, defiantly about racism in two books of poetry
• Langston Hughes - born in Missouri; leading writer of African American experience in America. Wrote about African American achievements.
Writers
Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,Making their mock at our accursed lot.If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
What is this poem talking about?
Racism in
America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gcgeX20x3g&feature=related
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.Or does it explode?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiL2znfkvFk
Zora Neale Hurston Wrote: Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Celebrated the courage of African Americans in the South
• Main characters in her novels were African American women– One of the first to do this
The artists, writers, and musician of the Harlem
Renaissance will become role models for young African American children growing up in
America. These children will later become the Civil Rights leaders of
the 1950s
• What issue did Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neal Hurston promote?
• African American Pride & Culture; Racism
Checking for Understanding
• Jazz - improvisational music introduced by Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington had a ragtime sound
• Many black musicians got their start at the Cotton Club, a famous Harlem nightclub.
• Bessie Smith – famous blues singer; at one time the highest paid singer in U.S.
Blues – soulful style of music that involved themes of love, poverty, oppression
DRAMA
Josephine Baker
You ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my doorYou ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my doorYou can wag your tail but Lord I ain't gonna feed you no more
You told me you were high class, but I can see through thatYou told me you were high class, but I can see through thatAnd daddy I know you ain't no real cool cat
Elvis will sing this song in the 50s
CLICKBut don’t play whole song
Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, & Louis Armstrong are all musician associated with what artistic movement?
• Harlem Renaissance
Checking for Understanding
1. Glorification of Blackness2. African-American History,
Slavery Identity and Pride 3. Strength of African-
American Community 4. Racism and Discrimination5. Night Life6. Family Life7. Other Arts: dance, music,
poetry
Themes of Harlem Renaissance Art
AARON DOUGLAS“ASPECTS OF NEGRO LIFE FROM SLAVERY TO
RECONSTRUCTION”
Aaron Douglas“In an African Setting”
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON“GOING TO CHURCH”
William H. Johnson“Chain Gang”
Palmer Hayden“Jeunesse”
Archibald Motley“Street Scene in Chicago”
Archibald Motley“Blues”
The NAACP Battle Lynching• NAACP = National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People– Fought, often unsuccessfully,
against discrimination– Published The Crisis– The main issue they fought
for was anti-lynching laws (failed during 1920s and 30s)
NAACP wanted this
stopped
• Marcus Garvey – a dynamic black leader from Jamaica
• Lead the Back to Africa Movement– became very popular; argued for
African American self-reliance.– Proposed a plan for black
Americans to return to start a new country in Africa
– Although the movement failed he did accomplish to promote Black Pride in America
– He was eventually arrested and deported.
Black Nationalism and Marcus Garvey
Click ME
African American
ArtShed light on racism
Jazz and Blues
NAACP
Black Pride
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/harlemrenaissance/
• Why did the NAACP and Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” movement exist?
• Discrimination against African Americans
Checking for Understanding
• List 3 things the NAACP did
– fight for legislation to protect African Americans.– work with anti-lynching organizations.– published The Crisis.
Checking for Understanding
Who was behind the Back to Africa Movement?
• Marcus Garvey
Checking for Understanding
An acrostic poem is one that uses a word or phrase (usually the theme or the underlying subject matter of the poem). Each letter of the word/phrase then acts as the beginning letter for a new line of the poem. Whatever is written using each letter must connect to the subject matter.
For example if the subject matter is CATS, then the poem could be:
Cute and cuddly Always up to mischief Time is always spent playing Stupendous fun
Acrostic Poem Directions
You also need to draw an image or design in the background of your poem. No WHITE! Full color.