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This was the period where about 6 million African Americans migrated out of the South.They were seeking refuge within their own country, to face less segregation and violence towards them and get a chance to live a better life.
Reasons for Great Migration were:
-Racism through Jim Crow laws which legalized racial segregation
-Industrialization in the North
-the Ku Klux Klan:secret society terrorizing Black communities
-Sharecropping: the abolition of slavery in the United States, most freed people were in debt and were compelled to work for white plantation owners.

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The Harlem Renaissance was the early twentieth-century growth of New York City's Harlem neighborhood as a place for Black culture, as well as the successive social and artistic boom that occurred. The time is considered a golden age of African American culture, lasting approximately from 1910's to the mid-1930's , and presenting itself in literature, music , stage performance , and art.

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JAZZ:
Jazz is considered as a musical language of communication, and it was the first African American style to have an international impact on music.
Figures:Duke Ellington an artist of jazz music and known as performing a genre known as "American Music"
Figures: Ella Fitzgerald, "The First Lady of Song
SWING:
Swing era Large black and white jazz bands became really popular, flooding the mainstream with swing, a term that came to be related with jazz.
Figure:Cab Calloway was one the big stars during this era and with his shows at the Cotton Club and his song "Minnie the Moocher," he rose to fame.
BLUES:
The music originated from slaves, African American sharecroppers who sang this when working in cotton and vegetable fields. Blues singers share emotions rather than say stories in their songs, which are lyrical rather than narrative.

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by:William Henry Johnson

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Artists connected with the movement expressed pride in black life and identity, a growing awareness of racism and injustice, and this sparked an interest in the modern world and arts to be shared ,  and was a way for many African Americans to have a voice and use their pride, strength, and emotions through the arts.
Artists:
William Henry Johnson-often painted using rural settings and paint of simple life which depicted his memories as a child living with his family in the south.

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had a huge influence on subsequent Black literature and culture around the world. While the uprising was not limited to New York City's Harlem district, it did draw a particularly heavy concentration of talent and creativity, and it emerged as the cultural awakening's symbolic capital.
Langston Hughes :Spoke on equality and pride for being African American

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Zora Neale Hurston (Crazy for this Democracy)

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Zora Neale Hurston (Crazy for this Democracy)

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Zora Neale Hurston criticizes American ideology about equality, and justice. She uses the disease metaphor to criticize the United States' inability to offer democracy both internationally and at home.

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African American leaders:
W.E.B. DuBois:He was one the best known spokes person for African Americans rights during the first half of the 20th century and he also co-funded the National Association for the advancement of Color people in 1909

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an author, educator, orator, philanthropist, and, from 1895- 1915, he was considered U.S most famous African American.

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-Jamaican-born Black nationalist -leader of the Pan-Africanism movement.
"founded the Negro World newspaper, a shipping company called Black Star Line and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, or UNIA, a fraternal organization of black nationalists."