A New Century and New Opportunities
World War I began in this year.
What is 1914?
The term for when thousands of African Americans left the South in search of better opportunities in the years following World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
Harlem is a New York City neighborhood in the northern portion of this borough.
What is Manhattan?
He was one of the best-known writers of the Harlem Renaissance and was a poet, essayist, and playwright.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The United States joined the war on this side in World War I.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The United States joined World War I on this date.
What is April 6, 1917?
This was the term for when race riots broke out across the country in the summer and fall of 1919.
What is Red Summer?
The Harlem Renaissance dominated African American cultural life during these two decades.
What are the 1920s and 1930s?
He was one of the leaders in the fight against discrimination and founder of the Black Nationalism movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Harlem was the home to the first branch of this civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP?
This is the practice of powerful nations controlling the governments and people of weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
The belief that black people around the world should create their own societies, separate and distinct from white societies.
What is Black Nationalism?
In the late 1920s, Harlem was a hotspot for this new form of music.
What is jazz?
Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, explored the world of a young black woman in the early 1900s still feeling the legacy of slavery and discrimination.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
In 1918, leaders of the NAACP helped persuade this President to condemn lynching.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The only two African American units that saw combat overseas during World War I.
Who are the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions?
Benjamin Fletcher organized several unions along the Eastern Seaboard under the auspices of this name.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
These were two leading African American magazines that promoted the works of talented black writers.
What are The Crisis and Opportunity?
In 1900, he co-wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became the official anthem of the NAACP.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
The 93rd Infantry's most famous unit and the first all-black U.S. combat unit to be sent overseas during the war.
Who was the 369th Infantry (The Harlem Hell Fighters)?
The idea that people of African heritage from around the world should work together to achieve freedom and equality.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This bill would have made lynching a felony and required punishment for those involved in a lynch mob.
What was the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill?
This was an early variety show that combined acting, music, and comedy.
What is vaudeville?
He was an African American who saw combat in World War I and was the world's first black fighter pilot.
Who is Eugene Jacques Bullard?
This was the country's first successful black labor union formed under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph.
What was the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?