CHAPTER 11 SECTION 5 THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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CHAPTER 11SECTION 5
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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• WORLD WAR I AND THE GREAT MIGRATION LED MILLIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS RELOCATED FROM RURAL SOUTH TO THE URBAN NORTH – CONTRIBUTED TO A FLOWERING OF MUSIC AND LITERATURE – JAZZ AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE MADE A LASTING IMPACT ON THE CULTURE OF ALL AMERICANS
The Harlem Renaissance
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• AFRICAN AMERICANS LEFT THE SOUTH FOR A BETTER FUTURE – ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT AND GREATER POLITICAL RIGHTS
• MOST FOUND A BETTER LIFE THAN IN THE SOUTH – HOWEVER DID NOT EXCAPE RACISM AND OPPRESSION – FORCED TO LIVE IN THE WORST HOUSING AND WORKED IN THE LOWEST PAYING JOBS – SOME WERE THREATENED WITH VIOLENCE
• AFTER WWI AFRICAN AMERICANS INCREASED THEIR DEMAND FOR SOLUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY’S RACIAL PROBLEMS
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• HARLEM BECAME THE FOCAL POINT FOR THE ASPIRATION OF THOUSANDS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS – 200,000 AFRICAN AMERICANS SETTLED IN HARLEM
• MIGRANTS FROM THE SOUTH MIXED WITH IMMIGRANTS FROM CARIBBEAN ISLANDS – CREATED A BLED OF DIFFERENT CULTURES AND TRADITIONS
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Marcus Garvey• MOST PROMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADER TO EMERGE IN THE 1920S – BELIEVED THAT BLACKS WERE EXPLOITED EVERYWHERE
• HE PROMOTED THE IDEA OF UNIVERSAL BLACK NATIONALISM AND ORGANIZED A “BACK TO AFRICA’ MOVEMENT
• DID NOT CALL FOR BLACKS TO WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE AMERICA – INSTEAD ADVOCATED THE SEPARATION OF RACES
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Marcus Garvey• FOUNDED THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION - HAD 2.5 MEMBERS AND SYMPATHIZERS • GARVEY’S MOVEMENT FELL APART IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE DECADE – THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SENT GARVEY TO PRISON FOR MAIL FRAUD AND DEPORTED HIM TO JAMAICA
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Marcus Garvey
• THE NATIONALIST AND SEPARATIST ASPECTS OF THE NATION OF ISLAM AND THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT IN THE 1960’S WERE INFLUENCED BY GARVEY – SO DID APPEALS TO BLACK PRIDE, SELF RELIANCE AND CULTURAL TIES TO AFRICA
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The Jazz Age• NAME CAME FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
• JAZZ IS A MUSICAL FORM BASED ON IMPROVISATION – RECOMBINE DIFFERENT FORMS OF MUSIC, INCLUDING AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUES AND RAGTIME AND EUROPEAN BASED POPULAR MUSIC
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The Jazz Age• JAZZ EMERGED IN THE SOUTHAND MIDWEST – PARTICULARLY NEW ORLEANS – WHERE DIFFERENT CULTURES AND TRADITIONS CAME TOGETHER AND INFLUENCED EACH OTHER – SPREAD NORTH WITH THE GREAT MIGRATION
• JAZZ WAS ALSO A SYMBOL OF THE ROARING TWENTIES – PLAYED IN SPEAKEASIES AND NIGHTSPOTS IN BIG CITIES
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The Jazz Age• LOUIS ARMSTRONG “IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD”
• BESSIE SMITH
MOST POPULAR JAZZ ENTERTAINERS OF THE 1920S
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The Jazz Age• PLAYED IN THE COTTON CLUB – HARLEMS MOST POPULAR NIGHTSPOT – BLACK MUSICIANS PLAYED TO WHITE AUDIENCES
• BY THE END OF THE 1920S JAZZ HAD SPREAD TO EUROPE – WITH THE HELP OF JOSEPHINE BAKER
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The Jazz Age
• JAZZ BRIDGED THE RACES – INFLUENCED WHITE SONGWRITERS AND COMPOSERS SUCH AS COLE PORTER, IRVING BERLIN AND GEORGE GERSHWIN
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The Harlem Renaissance• IN THE 1920S NOVELISTS, POETS AND ARTISTS CELEBRATED THEIR CULTURE AND EXPLORED QUESTIONS OF RACE IN AMERICA – THIS FLOWERING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE BECAME KNOW KNOWN AS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE – IT HELPED GIVE A NEW VOCABULARY AND DYNAMIC TO RACE RELATIONS IN THE U.S.
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The Harlem Renaissance• IN THE 1920’S THE TERM “NEW NEGRO” ENTERED THE AMNERICAN VOCABULARY – SUGGESTED A RADICAL BREAK WITH THE PAST – NO LONGER WOULD AFRICAN AMERICANS ENDURE THE OLD WAYS OF EXPLOITATION AND DISCRIMINATION
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The Harlem Renaissance• THIS WAS MOST VIVIDLY EXPRESSED IN HARLEM, WHICH ATTRACTED AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVELISTS, ESSAYISTS, POETS AND JOURNALISTS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY – THESE WRITERS EXPLORED THE PAINS AND JOYS OF BEING BLACK IN AMERICA
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The Harlem Renaissance
• CLAUDE MCKAY – NOVELIST AND POET WHO SHOWED ORDINARY AFRICAN AMERICANS STRUGGLING FOR DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE FACE OF DISCRIMINATION AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS
• MCKAY REPRESENTED THE POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL LEFT WING OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE – MORE TO THE CENTER WAS LANGSTON HUGHES – PROBABLY THE MOST POWERFUL AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY VOICE OF HIS TIME
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The Harlem Renaissance
• HUGHES BELIEVED THE FORCE OF THE MOVEMENT WAS NOT POLITICS BUT A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND LIFE
• HUGHES CAPTURED THE DIVERSITY OF EVERYDAY AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE
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The Harlem Renaissance
• ZORA HURSTON – WROTE FOLK TALES AND ALSO WROTE THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD – ABOUT THE NEW LONGING FOR INDEPENDENCE FELT BY MANY WOMEN, BLACK OR WHITE
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Impact of the Harlem Renaissance
• ALTERED THE WAY MANY WHITE AMERIANS VIEWED AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND EVEN THE WAY AFRICAN AMERICANS VIEWED THEMSELVES
• THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ENDED WITH THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE THAT ALSO ENDED THE NATION’S DECADE OF PROSPERITY
• THE SENSE OF GROUP IDENTITY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY THAT IT CREATED WOULD INFLUENCE LATER CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS