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- 1. The period from the 1890s until the mid FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT tutorialoutletdotcom The period from the 1890s until the mid 1920s was marked by very significant events in the African American community. race riots the Great Migration, the growth of the KKK and the black lives changed little although there were some very positive developments. Perhaps the most interesting and significant event was the Harlem Renaissance which brought great black talents to the fore. 1. Choose two of these developments and discuss its importance to the black community and their struggle for equal rights. Each of the events must be a minimum of 200 words. I would like to write about the race riots and the growth of the kkk. Thanks in advance Sources “The first decades of the twentieth century were characterized by a massive migration of African Americans within the United States. Designated the ‘Great Migration,’ this movement of blacks from the rural South to the urban South, from the South to the
- 2. North and the Midwest, and between southern states greatly changed the racial composition of many areas of the country.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/ 9780195167795.001.0001/acre f-9780195167795-e-0492 “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Throughout its hundred years of existence the association has fought all manifestations of racial segregation and discrimination and demanded equal rights and opportunity for all Americans regardless of race and color.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/ 9780195167795.001.0001/acre f-9780195167795-e-0862 “The National Urban League (NUL) was established in New York in 1910 as the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. It sought to help those hundreds of
- 3. thousands of African Americans who had started to leave the South and had migrated northward in search of freedom from institutionalized racism and of greater economic opportunity.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/ 9780195167795.001.0001/acre f-9780195167795-e-0879 “The National Negro Business League (NNBL), known since 1966 as the National Business League, is one of the oldest business and trade associations in the United States. It was organized in Boston on 23 August 1900 by Booker T. Washington, founder and principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In his travels throughout the country, Washington found that black businesspeople were in dire need of a body to represent their interests, facilitate their business ideas, and serve as a meeting area for likeminded businesspeople.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019516779 5.001.0001/acre f-9780195167795-e-0875 “World War I galvanized the black community in their effort to make America truly
- 4. democratic by ensuring full citizenship for all its people. Black soldiers, who continued to serve in segregated units, were involved in protest against racial injustice on the home front and abroad.World https://umuc.equella.ecollege.com/file/c56e4941-2540-483c- 857325df996ff77d/ 1/WorldWarIandPostwarSociety.pdf “In literature and the visual arts, the Harlem Renaissance--insofar as it can be defined-is described principally by a series of novels, books of poetry, paintings, and sculpture. Although African Americans wrote symphonies and sonatas in the period between the world wars, it was the nightclub music that seems to capture the period.” https://umuc.equella.ecollege.com/file/aaaa28a4-d15a-4f35- 9a4e120e2906dab0/ 1/TheHarlemRenaissanceandtheFloweringofCreativity.pdf During the 1980s and early 1990s a large literature appeared that contradicts, at most important points, previous work on the huge, nationwide Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=ahl&AN=9409280964&site=eds- live&scope=site
- 5. “Examines the social, economic, ethnic, racial, and psychological factors that triggered the 1919 Elaine Race Riots in Phillips County, Arkansas. Community's increasing hostility towards African Americans due to diminishing opportunities for many whites; how divisions within the white community complicated events; relationship between planters and their sharecroppers.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login? url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=a9h&AN=4970086&site=eds- live&scope=site “The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was part of the New Negro Movement that swept the USA in the early twentieth century. Through fiction, poetry, essays, music, theatre, sculpture, painting and illustration, participants in this first Black arts movement produced work that was both grounded in modernity and an engagement with African American history, folk culture and memory. This paper focuses on two Harlem Renaissance artists, the poet and fiction writer Langston Hughes and the illustrator and
- 6. mural painter Aaron Douglas, who were particularly concerned with matters of history, memory and meaning.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx? direct=true&db=a9h&AN=67098544&site=eds-live& amp;scope=site ************************************************
- 7. mural painter Aaron Douglas, who were particularly concerned with matters of history, memory and meaning.” http://ezproxy.umuc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx? direct=true&db=a9h&AN=67098544&site=eds-live& amp;scope=site ************************************************