https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv by: Marilyn Jeton Inga en-us 2021-03-10 17:39:57 UTC 2026-03-24 15:52:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294261232  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.]]> 2021-03-10 17:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294261232 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294273506 2021-03-10 17:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294273506 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294278431 2021-03-10 17:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294278431 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294305660 2021-03-10 17:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294305660 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294308291 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. ]]> 2021-03-10 17:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294308291 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294348074 2021-03-10 17:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294348074 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294356513 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.]]> 2021-03-10 18:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294356513 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294378722 by:William Henry Johnson]]> 2021-03-10 18:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294378722 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294382598 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.]]> 2021-03-10 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294382598 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294399913 -History.com Editors. “Harlem Renaissance.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance. 
-History.com Editors. “Jim Crow Laws.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 28 Feb. 2018, www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws.
-“Sharecropping.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/sharecropping.  
-“Music from the Harlem Renaissance.” An Archive for Virtual Harlem, scalar.usc.edu/works/harlem-renaissance/music-from-the-harlem-renaissance.vis. 
-“National Gallery of Art.” Harlem Renaissance, www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/harlem-renaissance.html.
-“Harlem Renaissance.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art.  
-“Booker T. Washington.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 23 Feb. 2021, www.britannica.com/biography/Booker-T-Washington. 

]]> 2021-03-10 18:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1294399913 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301120325 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 ]]> 2021-03-12 02:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301120325 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301159227 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.]]> 2021-03-12 02:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301159227 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301174094  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]]> 2021-03-12 03:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301174094 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301199966 an author, educator, orator, philanthropist, and, from 1895- 1915, he was considered U.S most famous African American.]]> 2021-03-12 03:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301199966 8546190 https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301214184 -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."]]> 2021-03-12 03:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/8546190/90ajduq6cs0olhqv/wish/1301214184