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 VocabHarlem Renaissance

Langston HughesClause McKay

Zora Neal HurstonMarcus Garvey

NAACPBack to Africa Movement

Academic VocabDiscrimination

Bell Ringer & Vocab

During Reconstruction

Reconstruction led to many

legal advances for African

Americans such as the 13, 14, &

15 Amendments.

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TRUE

During Reconstruction

Not even during

Reconstruction were African Americans voted into

office in the South.

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FALSE

Review After Reconstruction

Most African Americans

were able to make a decent

living/income in the South.FALSE

After Reconstruction

KKK had support of local officials and terrorized anyone who

voted Republican and African Americans.

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TRUE

ReviewAfter Reconstruction

Lynching became a

form of terrorism against African

AmericansTRUE

ReviewAfter Reconstruction

Jim Crow laws were declared

unconstitutional with the court

case of Plessy v FergusonFALSE

• 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.

South equals Disenfranchisement

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.

HARLEM

The Great MigrationGreat Migration:• After WWI, hundreds

of thousands African Americans left the rural south and headed into industrial cities of the North

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.

NY’s Harlem is the place to be!

The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.

Before After

Harlem is Transformed

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

Checking for Understanding

• Harlem Renaissance: African Americans created an environment that stimulated artistic development, racial pride, a sense of community, and political organization

African Americans Inspires

• 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.

Writers

Claude McKay

If we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted 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 shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall 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!

What is this poem talking about?

Racism in

America

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

The artists, writers, and musician of the Harlem

Renaissance will become role models for young African American children growing up in

America. These children will later become the Civil Rights leaders of

the 1950s

• What issue did Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neal Hurston promote?

• African American Pride & Culture; Racism

Checking for Understanding

• 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.

• Bessie Smith – famous blues singer; at one time the highest paid singer in U.S.

Blues – soulful style of music that involved themes of love, poverty, oppression

MUSIC

DRAMA

Josephine Baker

You ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my doorYou ain't nothin but a hound dog, been snooping round my doorYou 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 thatYou told me you were high class, but I can see through thatAnd daddy I know you ain't no real cool cat

Elvis will sing this song in the 50s

CLICKBut don’t play whole song

Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, & Louis Armstrong are all musician associated with what artistic movement?

• Harlem Renaissance

Checking for Understanding

1. Glorification of Blackness2. African-American History,

Slavery Identity and Pride 3. Strength of African-

American Community 4. Racism and Discrimination5. Night Life6. Family Life7. Other Arts: dance, music,

poetry

Themes of Harlem Renaissance Art

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)

NAACP wanted this

stopped

• 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.

Black Nationalism and Marcus Garvey

Click ME

African American

ArtShed light on racism

Jazz and Blues

NAACP

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

Checking for Understanding

• List 3 things the NAACP did

– fight for legislation to protect African Americans.– work with anti-lynching organizations.– published The Crisis.

Checking for Understanding

Who was behind the Back to Africa Movement?

• Marcus Garvey

Checking for Understanding

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

Acrostic Poem Directions

You also need to draw an image or design in the background of your poem. No WHITE! Full color.