Great Migration
The movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to urban Northeast, Mideast, and West occurred between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration
He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Who is Frederick Douglass
This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics in a potion of New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
She is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Who is Madam Kamala Harris i
An American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
This word can be described as the movement of a person or group of persons from one place to another.
What is Migration?
This black man became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
An all African American basketball team from Chicago adopted its name base on the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Harlem Globetrotters?
He was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades. He was very influential during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who Is Duke Ellington?
The New Negro Movement is another name for this.
What is the Great Migration?
The approximate number of African Americans involved in the Great Migration.
What is Six Million?
This individual born Sarah Breedlove was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in The Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C.J Walker?
This word means rebirth
What is a renaissance?
The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by.
Who Is W. E. B. Du Bois.?
A concept that Du Bois first explores in 1903 publication, “The Souls of Black Folk”. Double consciousness describes the individual sensation of feeling as though your identity is divided into several parts, making it difficult or impossible to have one unified identity.
What is Double Consciousness?
3 reason for the Great Migration
Answers will vary.
Economic exploitation, Social terror, Political disenfranchisement /Jim Crow, Racial prejudice, economic opportunities, etc, ect,
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, he is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
3 major contributing factors and influences of American and African American Culture as a result of the Harlem Renaissance
What Is music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics(civil rights)?
He passed away on January 22 2021 nicknamed the "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball legendary baseball Hall of Famer who broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
Who was Hank Aaron?
This is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Name 3 major cities where the African American population almost or did double during the Great Migration.
What is New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, St, Louise, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and or Indianapolis
This individual started a paper called the Negro Word in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. He uses the concept to promote Pan-Africanism and he was also an early champion of Black Nationalism.
Who is Marcas Garvey
A legendary nightspot in the Harlem district of New York City that for years featured prominent Black entertainers who performed for white audiences. The club served as the springboard to fame for Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and many others. The only patrons permitted at this club were white.
What is the Cotton Club?
She was a prominent contributor to the Harlem Renaissance a African American international entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights, activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She boycotted segregated clubs and concert venues, arguing that if African-Americans could not attend her shows, she would not perform. In 1963, she participated in the March on Washington. She was asked by Coretta Scott King to become the new leader of the civil rights movement in the United States after Martin Luther King, Jr. died.
Who was Josephine Baker?
Passed away on February 1, 2021, she was an American actress and fashion model. In a career spanning more than 70 decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American woman.
Who is Cicely Tyson?