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Good Morning!!!. NVC Harlem Renaissance: African-Americans in the 1920 Marcus Garvey: Back to Africa Essential Question : How did African-Americans seek to improve their condition in the 1920s? Homework : Research Paper Outline due Monday, Test Tuesday. The Harlem Renaissance .

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  1. Good Morning!!! • NVC • Harlem Renaissance: African-Americans in the 1920 • Marcus Garvey: Back to Africa Essential Question: How did African-Americans seek to improve their condition in the 1920s? Homework: Research Paper Outline due Monday, Test Tuesday

  2. The Harlem Renaissance • An era of written and artistic creativity among African-Americans that occurred after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930s Depression.

  3. The Harlem Renaissance • A result of the Great Migration • Blacks moved to northern cities in WWI to work in factories • “New Negro Movement” centered in Harlem, NY • Outcomes • Writings, arts, and music flourish • New cultural pride: fight back against racism • NAACP takes the lead

  4. Writers • Zora Neale Hurston • Famous author • Langston Hughes “Poet Laureate of Harlem”

  5. Fighting Back Against Racism with Writing Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

  6. Fighting Back Against Racism with Poetry A Dream Deferred by 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?

  7. Fighting Back Against Racism with Music Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVxVa3D11n4 Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop.

  8. Lynching

  9. Marcus Garvey • Marcus Garvey • Born in Jamaica • Black Nationalist: solidarity among blacks world-wide • 1916 founds Universal Negro Improvement Association • Headquarters in Harlem • “Back to Africa”: blacks must return to Africa to create a country of their own

  10. Why was Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” Movement controversial? • Why do you think the Back to Africa Movement was controversial? Write a 1 pg response using evidence from the documents, including TWO QUOTATIONS

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