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How Did African Americans Influence American Society in the 1920's?

anorb414 — 2013-02-19 15:44:59 UTC

By: Abby Norberg

Some events/people involving African Americans that influenced American society were:

anorb414 — 2013-02-19 15:46:21 UTC

-The Great Migration

-Harlem Renissance

-Claude Mckay

-Louis Armstrong

-Duke Ellington

-The NAACP

-Black Nationalism

-Marcus Gravey

The Great Migration

anorb414 — 2013-02-19 15:51:21 UTC

* a movement from rural cities to the North.

* The African Americans were getting away from segregation.

* This influenced Americans to open more factories and work places.

Harlem Reniassance

anorb414 — 2013-02-19 15:54:21 UTC

* a movement where African American artistic development and racial pride thrived

*helped advance technology

Claude McKay

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 01:59:53 UTC

* 1st important writer
* she allowed Americans to realize that american racism was happening

Louis Armstrong

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:01:33 UTC

*introduced the style of music called jazz

*showed American society a new type of entertainment

Duke Ellington

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:03:07 UTC

* a band leader who loved ragtime

* He soon created his own type of music

The NAACP

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:04:29 UTC

*National Associtation for the advancement of colored people

* led to the passage of antilynching legislation in the house or reps.

*changed alot of decisions in court

Black Nationalism

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:06:45 UTC

* a social and political movement that pushed for the seperation of blacks and whites

*pride

* they wanted to make there own decisions

Marcus Gravey

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:09:26 UTC

* black leader that came up with "Negro Nationalism"

* filled many African Americans with pride

Famous writer during the 1920's on a rooftop

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:17:59 UTC

*Langston Hughes and four other men are standing together
* These African Americans are having a good time during the Harlem Renissance

(google image)

A quote from The Washington Time

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:29:18 UTC

"... movement is soley an ecomonic one. Those holding this viewpoint to the need for labor,skilled and unskilled, on Northern railroads and industrail estalishments"

This shows that the Great Migration was intended for ecomomic reasons. African Americans influenced American Society by providing work in the Northern cities.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1916-10-23/ed-1/seq-1/

A Stamp from the 1920's

anorb414 — 2013-02-20 02:40:10 UTC

* This shows how jazz became popular and known around the world. An African American was the first person to introduce/invent it.

(google image)