Transcript Chapter 13 Section 4 Notes The Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 13 Section 4 Notes
The Harlem Renaissance
African – Americans in the 1920s
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Culture and Ideas Begin to Spread.
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WHY? = Great Migration
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movement of A-A’s from the South
to the North between 1910 & 1920
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due to WWI and jobs in factories
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by 1920, 40% of A-A’s lived in cities
 25 race riots at the end of the war
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Getting Organized
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NAACP
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founded in 1909
W.E.B. Dubois
led protests against violence
fought for Civil Rights
# of lynchings decreased
 Couldn’t get laws passed
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UNIA
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Universal Negro Imp. Assoc.
founded in 1914
Marcus Garvey
Believed A-A’s should build
a separate society and
move back to Africa
 Be Proud of Culture
 Promoted using black
businesses when possible
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Harlem Renaissance
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movement of A-A art, music, and literature in the 1920’s
Mostly educated, middle to upper class
Exposed Northern White America to Black Culture
Art
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Depicted scenes of everyday life
Vivid Colors
“Be Proud of Your Race
and Accomplishments”
To the left:
“Building
More
Stately
Mansions”
by
Aaron
Douglas
Above:
“Street Life in Harlem” by
William Henry Johnson
Literature
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Writers talked about slavery, racism, and injustice
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Made A-A’s seem “human” in white readers eyes
Advanced cause for equality
Magazines and Newspapers
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NAACP (The Crisis)
UNIA (Negro World)
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Langston Hughes
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Probably most famous A-A writer of this era
Poet (“Raisin in the Sun”)
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?
Music
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Jazz
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Founded in New Orleans in early 1900’s
Spread to Chicago and NY after WWI
Popular in Speakeasies and Clubs
 More upbeat than other music before that
 white audiences liked its “danceability”
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Jazz Musicians of the 1920s
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Louis Armstrong
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Duke Ellington
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Piano and composer
 Mood Indigo
Cab Calloway
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Trumpet player and singer
Most influential jazz musician ever
 Jeepers Creepers
 What a Wonderful World
Popularized scat
Bessie Smith
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Highest paid female
vocalist
Harlem Renaissance Legacy
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Didn’t magically make things more equal for A-A’s right away
helped speed the process up some though
 White society began to identify