The Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance

• 1920-1930
• A Cultural Explosion in the North

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The Great Migration

• Push
• Racism/Jim Crow
• Unemployment
• Boll Weevil

• Pull
• WWI
• Equality
• City life

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The Great Migration

• One of two Great Migrations
• 1910-1920300,000 to 1 million migrated
• Outbreak of WWI in 1914
• 90 of African-Americans lived in the South
• 75 of them lived in rural areas
• Not an easy transition
• Red Summer 1919
• Race riots erupted in 22 American cities
• Tulsa 1921

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The Harlem Renaissance

• What was it?
• From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented
  outburst of creative activity among
  African-Americans occurred in all fields of art.
• Painting, dancing, literature, poetry, music,
  singing, etc
• African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate
  their heritage through self expression

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Schools of Thought

• Not one universal school of thought for
  African-Americans
• Lockes New Negro
• Marcus Garvey Back to Africa
• DuBois Talented 10th

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Famous Historical Figures

• Louie Armstrong
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Duke Ellington
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Billie Holliday
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neal Hurston

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Outcomes

• Racial identity
• Mass organizing techniques
• Safety in numbers
• Jazz/Blues
• Black culture was on center stage

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One last Quote

• Harlem was not so much a place as a state of
  mind, the cultural metaphor for black America
  itself." Langston Hughes

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Resources

• http//www.nku.edu/diesmanj/harlem.html
• http//www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/
• http//www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9i
  ntro.html
• http//www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february98/harle
  m_2-20.html
• http//www.artlex.com/ArtLex/h/harlemrenaissance.h
  tml