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 Vocab
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Clause McKay
Zora Neal Hurston
Marcus Garvey
NAACP
Back to Africa Movement
Academic Vocab
Discrimination
During Reconstruction
Reconstruction
led to many
legal advances
for African
Americans such
as the 13, 14,
& 15
Amendments.
During Reconstruction
Not even
during
Reconstruction
were African
Americans
voted into
office in the
South.
After Reconstruction
Most African
Americans
were able to
make a
decent
living/income
in the South.
After
Reconstruction
KKK had support
of local officials
and terrorized
anyone who
voted Republican
and African
Americans.
After Reconstruction
Lynching
became a
form of
terrorism
against
African
Americans
After Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws
were declared
unconstitutional
with the court
case of Plessy v
Ferguson
• 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.
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.
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.
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a
deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before
After
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
• Harlem
Renaissance:
African Americans
created an
environment that
stimulated artistic
development,
racial pride, a
sense of
community, and
political
organization
• 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.
What is this poem
talking about?
Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted 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
shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall 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!
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
• What issue did Langston Hughes, Claude
McKay, and Zora Neal Hurston promote?
• African American Pride & Culture; Racism
• 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.
 Blues – soulful style
of music that
involved themes of
love, poverty,
oppression
• Bessie Smith –
famous blues singer;
at one time the
highest paid singer
in U.S.
Josephine Baker
You ain't nothin but a hound dog,
been snooping round my door
You ain't nothin but a hound
dog, been snooping round my
door
You 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
that
You told me you were high
class, but I can see through
that
And daddy I know you ain't no
real cool cat
CLICK
But don’t
play whole
song
Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, & Louis Armstrong are all
musician associated with what artistic movement?
• Harlem Renaissance
1. Glorification of Blackness
2. African-American History,
Slavery Identity and Pride
3. Strength of AfricanAmerican Community
4. Racism and Discrimination
5. Night Life
6. Family Life
7. Other Arts: dance, music,
poetry
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)
• 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.
Click ME
African
American
Art
NAACP
Shed light
on racism
Jazz and
Blues
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
•
List 3 things the NAACP did
– fight for legislation to protect African Americans.
– work with anti-lynching organizations.
– published The Crisis.
Who was behind the Back to Africa Movement?
• Marcus Garvey
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
You also need to draw an image or
design in the background of your
poem. No WHITE! Full color.