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Think back to what we have learned in this
unit. List three push factors for why people
moved to America and three pull factors.
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Debate will be Monday March 28th
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Debate Topic: Illegal immigrant are a drain
on our society and should be removed no
matter how long they have been in the U.S.
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Test will be Tuesday March 29th.
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I will give you a review sheet Wednesday
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I will have coach class on Wednesday and
Thursday this week.
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What was it like to be a refugee?
What are difficulties refugees faced?
Who are illegal immigrants?
How many are in the United States?
Should we let them stay or make them go?
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What challenges did African Americans face
that caused them to move? Describe the
lives of African Americans during the Harlem
Renaissance.
Industrialization
When a society changes its mode of production
from being primarily agriculturally based to
industry (factory) based
Urbanization
Movement of people from rural to urban areas
which ends with the majority of the people in the
cities
Great Migration
The movement of 4.1 million African
Americans out of the Southern United States to
the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930
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1. Why did African Americans move to the
North?
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2. What opportunities did it provide?
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3. Were there any negatives for African
Americans moving to the north?
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Emancipation Proclamation
Urbanization
Escape discrimination: Jim Crow Laws
War industries
Shortage of workers because of Immigration
Act of 1924
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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First large black urban communities in the
north
New discrimination
Poor working conditions
Segregation
Second Great Migration
The migration of more than 5 million African
Americans from the South to the other three regions
of the United States from 1940-1970
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Moved to cities
Already urban laborers from cities in the
South
Better educated and had better skills
African Americans 80% urbanized
53% in the south
40% northeast
7% north central and west
African Americans became more unionized;
They entered the middle class in larger numbers, with the
help of skilled industrial jobs;
 They worked in many industrial fields; and
 African-American communities in cities occupied a range
of jobs and professions. The concentrations of populations
supported their creation of black-owned businesses, such
as insurance, funeral homes, hairdressers and barber
shops, and they supported their own doctors and lawyers
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The name given to the period from the end of
World War I and through the middle of the
1930s Depression, during which a group of
talented African-Americans produced a
sizable body of art, literature and music.
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"One ever feels his two-ness - an American, a
Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled stirrings: two warring ideals in one
dark body, whose dogged strength alone
keeps it from being torn asunder.” –W.E.B.
Dubois
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,“
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I
I, too, am America.
Palmer Hayden
Jeunesse
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.
Once driving through Alabama,
Excited, and felling good because I had just came from a Jazz
concert
I see a white man.
I notice him looking at me but I do not look back.
I know they do not like blacks in this area.
He starts to walk toward me.
He gets closer and closer until we are face to face.
He asks me my name.
I say nothing.
He says he just came over to tell me that my tire was flat
And that I might want change it,
I was surprised that he came and talked to me.
I was even more surprised that he let me know that my tire was
flat.
I guess that goes to that there is a sign of change.
THE sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light,
The sciences were sucklings at thy breast;
When all the world was young in pregnant night
Thy slaves toiled at thy monumental best.
Thou ancient treasure-land, thou modern prize,
New peoples marvel at thy pyramids!
The years roll on, thy sphinx of riddle eyes
Watches the mad world with immobile lids.
The Hebrews humbled them at Pharaoh's name.
Cradle of Power! Yet all things were in vain!
Honor and Glory, Arrogance and Fame!
They went. The darkness swallowed thee again.
Thou art the harlot, now thy time is done,
Of all the mighty nations of the sun.
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You will now use the Worksheet I handed out
to help you create your own 1920s Art!
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This assignment is worth a quiz grade. Please
put time and effort into the assignment.
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Write a story pretending that you were an
African-American migrating.
Tell us where you have decided to go and why
you are leaving your home.