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Harlem Renaissance
Originally called the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance had fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s. -
The Niagara Movement
Niagra MovementInfo
The Niagara Movement. On July 11-13, African-American intellectuals and activists, led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, began the Niagara Movement.
Niagara movement embraces a more radical approach, callin g for immediate equality in all areas of American life -
When it first began.
In December 24, 1905, the New York Herald ran an article entitled Negroes Move Into Harlem -
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City. -
Emerging!
The movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, peaked in the mid- to late 1920s -
Migrated
Between 1920 and 1930, almost 750,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity and the more racially tolerant environment. -
Art *video*
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Lynching
LynchingAn anti-lynching effort. On December 4, a federal anti-lynching bill was killed by a filibuster in the United States Senate. -
Defining Period *video*
Defining Period Defining period for african american art and literature -
Countee Cullen
He was an american poet who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renassiance.
He wrote The Ballad of Brown Girl and Copper Sun
Married Yolande Du Bois a year later. She is daughter of WEB Du Bois who was a civil rights activist. -
Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas was an African-American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
Some of his most famous illustration projects include his images for James Weldon Johnson's poetic work, God's Trombone and Paul Morand's Black Magic. -
Scottsboro Boys
Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women. Although the evidence was slim, the southern jury sentenced them to death. The Supreme Court overturns their convictions twice; each time Alabama retries them, finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottsboro boys are freed; but five are sentenced to long prison terms. -
Zora Neale Hurston
she the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937 during the Harlem Renassiance -
Langston Hughes *video*
