AFRICAN AMERICANS 1920S

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African Americans
1920s

HARLEM RENAISSANCE AUTHORS

The Life of a 1920s Negro

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North vs. South

In the south, blacks and whites were still segregated in the country. They received education, but of course it was less maintenance compared to the whites. Blacks in the south were still living with the Jim Crow Laws, some even were denied the right to vote. This was when The Great Migration came into play. Blacks migrated to the North to get away from the Jim Crow Laws and to find work in the industrial centers of the north, and especially to New York City.

because the blacks were doing their own thing

Marcus Garvey
Leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, he advocated for the idea of Garveyism. Also known as black pride, black economic development, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. He supported the idea of Africans returning to Africa and that the European colonial powers leave the continent.

James Weldon Johnson

Harlem Renaissance
On the other hand, the 1920s was the era of the Harlem Renaissance, when black authors, poets, painters, playwrights, actors and musicians gained wider exposure. This took place in a city called Harlem on Manhattan Island. In New York and other cities, black Americans explored new opportunities for intellectual and social freedom. This eventually led to the creation of jazz music. Some even argued that this was a form of rebellion

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

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