the historical background of
DESCRIPTION
The Historical Background of. W.E.Duboise. American Scholar and Activist and Founder of the NAACP. Harlem in the 20’s and 30’s Was the Center of an Intellectual and Cultural Movement. The Harlem Renaissance. Residents were well off financially - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Harlem Renaissance
• Residents were well off financially• They supported Churches like The African
Methodist Episcopal Zion• Newpapers: “The Messenger”• Magazines: “Crisis”• People were social • Clubs like the Cotton Club, Savoy and Apollo
Theatre were known as first class entertainment.
Tons of Culture
• Writers: Langston Hughes• Artists: Jacob Lawrence• Musicians: Fats Waller and Duke Ellington • All contributed to this incredible creative time.
Over the Next 20 Years: 1960’s
• Housing conditions deteriorated• There were extensive slums• The middle class left for suburban areas like
Queens• It’s an impoverished Harlem that children have
to grow up in.
African Americans struggled with the question of trying to live with whites or separating from them.
Marcus Garvey led one of the first popular black nationalist movements
Dominating the Nationalist SceneIn Harlem in the 1960’s
• Malcolm X• Started the Organization of Afro-American
Unity • Believed in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of
Islam
These Teachings were also at the time of : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• King Taught : A Peaceful integration
Race is complicated during this time period
• There is white racism against blacks• Racial slurs by blacks against blacks• Racial slurs against Jews. (Remember this is
only 15-20 years after WWII)