1. Goal 9 Part 3 The Harlem Renaissance

2. 1920s African American / NAACP Great Migration (between 1910-1930) CAUSES the growth in African American population in the North NAACP: National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (1909)  Magazine: The Crisis  Founded by W.E.B. Dubois  James Weldon Johnson: Exec. Sect. of NAACP

3. Marcus Garvey and the UNIA Remember: “Back to Africa Movement” Founded the UNIA – (Universal Negro Improvement Association)=same goal as NAACP

4. Harlem – Capital of Black America Harlem – upper West side of Manhattan Island  Became the largest African American urban community in the world

5. Harlem Renaissance A literary and artistic movement celebrating the AFRICAN AMERICAN culture / the great “flowering” of African American artistic activity in the 1920s Most Famous writer during the Harlem Renaissance = Langston Hughes  Poems show the difficult life of “Working-class African Americans”

6. African Americans and Jazz Jazz born in the early 20 th century in New Orleans Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington: a Jazz pianist and composer / played at the famous “Cotton Club”

7. Which of the following caused the Harlem Renaissance to flower in the 1920s? A. Immigration and overcrowding in Harlem B. Great Migration and African American pride C. The NAACP D. Marcus Garvey’s UNIA organization Reasons: Racial discrimination in the South Campaigns for equality in the North