The19th Amendment…

47) How did women’s work change in the
1920s and what were the gains and losses?
48) The SheppardTowner Act… What happened to it and why?

PROMISES POSTPONED
Objective…
Identify and explain the significance of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem in the 1920s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idqeiACqn4
• Relates to the “Great Migration”…
• Harlem 1920-30:
120,000 new arrivals… 25% from the
Caribbean
- Total pop. of 200,000

Harlem in the 1920s
Poverty…
- Poor housing, overcrowded, costly rent
- Low end wage earners
Sanitation problems…Disease
- High death rates
A cultural center…
- Large #s of middle class
- Churches
- Black owned businesses
- Harlem attracts: artists, musicians, writers

“nothing can go farther to destroy race prejudice than the recognition of the
Negro as a creator and contributor to
American civilization”
– James Weldon Johnson

51) What was the “New Negro”?...
*
African Americans (AA) showcase & celebrate their cultural heritage. AA culture was defined by the writers, musicians, artists & poets of the
Harlem Renaissance. …Black pride emphasizing cultural independence.
53) What was the political side to the “New
Negro?”…
*
WW I AA veterans are angry about their treatment following the war. Harlem becomes a center for Black political activism.

Marcus Garvey
Founder of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (UNIA)
Beliefs, goals & tactics…
Organized a movement stressing black unity & inter-dependence…
• Blacks support black business
• Sponsored parades & rallies… PRIDE!

54) The significance of Marcus Garvey
& the UNIA…
“ In a world where black is despised, he taught them that black is beautiful. He taught them to admire and praise black things and black people.”
- Amsterdam Newspaper

W.E.B. Du Bois
• Organization: NAACP
• The mission of the NAACP…
• An African-American civil rights organization
• Mission: “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”.

The Harlem Renaissance
Objective…
Summarize the cultural significance of the Harlem
Renaissance?…

The Harlem Renaissance
Entertainment
What was the white connection to
Harlem?...

The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
Cab Calloway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=8mq4UT4VnbE&feature=related
Duke Ellington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1J mCY&feature=related
Louis
Armstrong http://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=A3yC cXgbKrE&feature=rel ated

What is the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?…

• Identify the issues and the outcome of the1928 election.
Herbert Hoover v.
Al Smith

AL Smith
• NY – Democratic
• Social reformer
• Catholic
• Self made man
• Gov. of NY
• “Wet”
Herbert Hoover
• Iowa – Republican
• Quaker
• Self made man
• WWI Food Relief Administration
• Sec. of Commerce
• “Dry”

The Election of 1928
55) The results of the election of 1928?

What did it reveal about
American society?…
• The 1928 election was a ringing endorsement for Republican pro-business polices.
• Reflects deep division in American society…
- Nativists v. _______________
- Protestants v. _______________
- Prohibitionists (DRY) v. ______________ (WETS)
- __________________ v. Modernists
- Urban v. ______________
- Traditional ______________ v. Mass media norms

The 1928 Election
• Catholicism and the 1928 election…
• The irony of the 1928 election…

Have mercy!
…Not the 1920s test!