The Great Migration
This was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Western cities.
What is the Great Migration?
A difficult condition that causes people to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
This philosopher popularized the term “The New Negro” in 1925.
Who is Alain Locke?
This poet wrote “I, Too.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
This New York City neighborhood became an important center of Black culture.
What is Harlem?
The Great Migration took place between these years.
What are 1916 and 1970?
An opportunity that attracts people to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
Name one old idea or stereotype about African Americans that the New Negro Movement rejected.
What is subservience, rural isolation, or passive endurance?
In “I, Too,” this room symbolizes racial segregation and social exclusion.
What is the kitchen?
This popular nightclub brought music, dance, and community together.
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
More than this many African Americans participated in the Great Migration.
What is six million?
These Southern laws enforced racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow laws?
Name one new idea promoted by the New Negro Movement.
What is self-respect, independence, urban sophistication, or bold artistic pride?
This poet wrote “If We Must Die.”
Who is Claude McKay?
This word means a lasting influence passed to future generations.
What is a legacy?
Name two Northern cities that became destinations during the Great Migration.
What are New York, Chicago, Detroit, or Philadelphia?
This discriminatory housing practice limited where Black families could live or receive loans.
What is redlining?
Black artists rejected harmful stereotypes and used creative expression to demand this.
What is equality?
Langston Hughes often used this music-inspired poetic style.
What is blues-inspired verse?
The combination of jazz, blues, and poetry helped prepare the way for this modern musical form.
What is hip-hop?
Explain one way the Great Migration contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is bringing African American writers, musicians, artists, traditions, and audiences together in Northern cities?
High rents forced multiple families to share small apartments, creating this systemic barrier.
What is overcrowding?
Explain how the New Negro Movement changed the public image of African Americans.
What is presenting African Americans as confident, independent, creative, educated, and proud instead of accepting harmful stereotypes?
Compare the tones of “I, Too” and “If We Must Die.”
What are confident and hopeful for “I, Too” and urgent, courageous, or forceful for “If We Must Die”?
The Harlem Renaissance helped lay the intellectual groundwork for this movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?