The Harlem Renaissance

Chapter 21 Section 4 Notes

Great Migration• 1910-1920, 5 million blacks lived in the North

• Northerners not welcoming

• A-A. Goals– W.E.B. Du Bois: Founder of NAACP, protest

racial violence– James Weldon Johnson: Legislation to protect

A.A. rights– NAACP: main voice for African Americans

Marcus Garvey and UNIA• A.A. should build a separate society

• Universal Negro Improvement Association

• Plans– Promote A.A. business– Return to Africa, stop white colonies– Create a mighty African Nation

-He opened up black pride and reverence for Africa

Harlem Renaissance• Upper W. Side of

Manhattan• Largest black community• A literary and artistic

movement celebrating A.A. culture

A.A. Writers

• Literary Movement

• Wrote of Pride, defiance in a white world

• Claude McKay: Resist Prejudice, militant voice

• Langston Hughes: Poet, of poverty of Blacks

A.A. Performers

• Shuffle Along: Black musical comedy

• Paul Robeson: Actor, London and Broadway

• Jazz– Louis Armstrong: Famous Trumpet player– Duke Ellington: Jazz composer and band leader– Bessie Smith: female vocal