Harlem renaissance great migration and inner cities
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The Great Migration saw over 6 million African Americans relocate from the rural South to Northern and Western cities between 1916-1970. This mass movement had a huge impact on urban life as Black Americans built new communities and cultures while confronting economic and social challenges in the cities. The Harlem Renaissance emerged from this period, as the "New Negro" movement encouraged cultural pride and independence among African Americans. However, migrants still faced hardships like poor housing and racism in their new urban homes.
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- 1. HARLEM RENAISSANCE: The Great Migration and Life in the Inner Cities
- 2. THE GREAT MIGRATION BY CLARENCE ROWE Clarence Rowe, The Great Migration, Teaching & Learning Cleveland , accessed October 17, 2012, http://csudigitalhumanities.org/exhib its
- 3. Fellow Negroes of the South, leave Letter to the Editor: there. Go North, East, and Westanywhere to get out of that hell hole. There are better The Messenger, March 1920 schools here for your children, higher wages for yourselves, votes if you are twenty-one, better Black publications continued to housing and more liberty. All is not rosy here, encourage migration after WWI, as is evident in this 1920 by any means, but it is Paradise compared with editorial from the Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Messenger, which link s Migration Alabama. Besides, you make it better for those to better opportunities fro both you leave behind. Labor becomes scarce, so migrants and those who stay in that the Bourbons of Dixie* are compelled to the South. It also hints at pay your brothers back home more wages. hardships in the North. Such They will give them more schools and hardships may have been privileges, too, to try to get them to come back responsible for the resurrection of and, secondly, to try to keep you from leaving. emigration movements in the 1920s most famously, Marcus Stop buying property in the South, to be Garveys Back to African burned down and run away from over night. campaign- as new migrants Sell out your stuff quietly, saying nothing to the discovered that the South did not Negro lackeys, and leave! Come into the land of hold a monopoly on racism and at least incipient civilization! economic hardship.
- 4. Fellow Negroes of the The relocation of more than 6 South, leave there. Go million African Americans from the North, East, an d West rural South to the cities of the anywhereto North, Midwest and West from get out of that hell hole. 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.
- 6. The South by Langston Hughes The lazy, laughing South With blood on its mouth. The sunny-faced South, Beast-strong, Idiot-brained. The child-minded South Scratching in the dead fire's ashes For a Negro's bones. Cotton and the moon, Warmth, earth, warmth, The sky, the sun, the stars, The magnolia-scented South. Beautiful, like a woman, Seductive as a dark-eyed whore, Passionate, cruel, Honey-lipped, syphilitic-- That is the South. And I, who am black, would love her But she spits in my face. And I, who am black, Would give her many rare gifts But she turns her back upon me. So now I seek the North-- The cold-faced North, For she, they say, Is a kinder mistress, And in her house my children May escape the spell of the South.
- 7. Great Migration During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life, actively confronting economic, political and social challenges and creating a new black urban culture that would exert enormous influence in the decades to come. Armistice Day, Lenox Ave. 4 west 134th street, Harlem 1919
- 8. The New Negro African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," a term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke in his influential book of the same name. "For the younger generation," Alain Locke wrote in 1925, "is vibrant with a new psychology." This new spirit he described as basically a renewal of "self-respect and self-dependence."
- 9. African Americans were encouraged to Alain Lockes New Negro celebrate their heritage and to become Movement "The New Negro," a term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke in his influential book of the same name. "For the younger generation," Alain Locke wrote in 1925, "is vibrant with a new psychology." This new spirit he described as basically a renewal of "self-respect and self-dependence. This movement promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self- expression, economic independence, and progressive politics.
- 10. I, too, Sing America by Langston Hughes 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, too, am America.
- 11. Living Spaces in the Cities Chicago, New York and other cities saw their black populations expand exponentially, migrants were forced to deal with poor working conditions and competition for living space, as well as widespread racism and prejudice.
- 12. The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy-do? I said, What Can I do for you? He said, You know Your rent is due. I said, Listen, Before I'd pay I'd go to Hades And rot away! The sink is broke, The water don't run, And you ain't done a thing You promised to've done. Back window's cracked, Kitchen floor squeaks, There's rats in the cellar, And the attic leaks. He said, Madam, It's not up to me. I'm just the agent, Don't you see? I said, Naturally, You pass the buck. If it's money you want You're out of luck. He said, Madam, I ain't pleased! I said, Neither am I. So we agrees!
- 13. 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?
- 14. FINAL QUESTIONS: