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Harlem Renaissance (1920s)

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Announcements
Everything due by today

Ethel Waters: Ive Found a New

Baby
Song

Race Riots
Tensions as blacks moved North, whites feared
job loss
1918: East St. Louis, Illinois: Rioting whites
burned down whole black neighborhoods, killed
100-200 black men and women
1919: riots in Knoxville, Chicago

Garveyism
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican, founded
African nationalist movement: Universal
Negro Improvement Association
Goal: black independence, return to Africa

Harlem Renaissance
African-American movement in literature,
art, & music
Spread from Harlem, NY

Jazz Age
Jazz began as Blues among blacks in
Mississippi
Spread to New York in Great Migration
Became popular throughout US, spreading
from New Yorks Cotton Club