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Harlem Rennaissance
Famous People of the New Deal
People of the Rennaissance
Events that took place during the Depression/New Deal
Miscellaneous
100
originally called the Negro Movement
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
The President during the Great Depression
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
Writer of "If We Must Die"
Who is Claude McKay?
100
This event was the start of the Great Depression
What is the stock market crash?
100
the first three paragraphs of your paper
What are the introduction and Great Depression paragraphs?
200
1920's-1940's
What are the years of the Harlem Renaissance?
200
Spoke out publicly on behalf of blacks and against racial injustices
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Author of "Incident"
Who is Countee Cullen?
200
Black women were forced to work for wages as little as $5 a week
What is the Depression era "slave market"?
200
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What is the NAACP?
300
lynchings, loss of jobs, Jim Crow laws, boll weevil infestation,
What are the reasons for leaving the south/Great Migration?
300
Historian who helped to promote the study of African American history emphasizing the role of blacks in the development of the nation.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
300
Author of "Dreams"
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
The true "New Deal" was created by this group
What is the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)?
300
only get low paying jobs such as janitors, elevator operators, and unskilled laborers; faced racism, in some cases as severe as the south
What are the struggles of African Americans when they migrated to the North?
400
750,000 African Americans left the South to go North
What is the Great Migration?
400
Help to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids in 1925 which represented 35,000 porters
Who is A.Phillip Randolph?
400
this group of African Americans was not afraid to face the white people
Who are the "New Negroes?"
400
attacks began to happen on the northbound train to New York
What is the reaction of Southerners to the Great Migration?
400
Became known as the "Negro Capital" of the world
What is Harlem?
500
beatings, promises of better pay, intimidation towards African Americans
What is the reaction of Southerners to African Americans leaving the South?
500
Robert L. Vann, Mary Mcloud Bethune, Robert C. Weaver,
Who are the people who started the National Negro Congress to unite African Americans together?
500
This musician wrote "It Don't mean a Thing"
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
Black voters switch political parties from Republicans to Democrats
What are the actions African Americans took because Republicans no longer supported them?
500
Not wanting to antagonize the Southern Senators because they may block his efforts to end the depression
What is the reason President Roosevelt didn't want to aid African Americans in their fight for rights?