USH2 Unit 4: Equality and Power Lesson 4.1 = Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights

standards USH.H.4.3 USH 2 Analyze the social and religious conflicts, movements and reforms that impacted the United States since Reconstruction in terms of participants, strategies, opposition, and results USH.H.4.4 USH 2 Analyze the cultural conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted

What students will know and do Students will know how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics, and culture of the US. Students will do: Active Listening Evaluating and viewing films for modeling Note taking from presentations Brainstorming Cooperative group learning Group discussion Debate (silent grafitti) or Word splash Compare / Contrast Categorizing/sorting/classifying Graphic Organizers Models, Graphs, Flow charts Venn Diagram Read Aloud Reading Primary Source Documents Summaries

Unit overview Students will understand how tensions between freedom, equality, and power have shaped the political, economic and social development of the United States.

Essential Question How did the Harlem Renaissance impact Civil Rights in the United States?

New Negro

Activate What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance? om/watch?v=4Bc2Teky nis&list=PLXgoPmW- LCpykUMF7a61wZtZ8 eSDhqPkR om/watch?v=4Bc2Teky nis&list=PLXgoPmW- LCpykUMF7a61wZtZ8 eSDhqPkR 3 2 1

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS JOINED THE GREAT MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH TO NORTHERN CITIES AS THE NORTH’S AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION GREW, IT INFLUENCED CULTURE AND ARTS NEW YORK CITY’S HARLEM NEIGHORHOOD BECAME THE CENTER OF THE FLOWERING AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS

THE WRITERS TWO OF ITS WRITERS WERE CLAUDE MCKAY AND LANGSTON HUGHES MCKAY’S VERSES REFLECT DEFIANCE AND CONTEMPT FOR RACISM (pg 617) HUGHES BECAME THE LEADING VOICE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

JAZZ, BLUES AND THEATER LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTRODUCED AN EARLY IMPROVISATIONAL STYLE OF JAZZ MUSIC BANDLEADER DUKE ELLINGTON GOT HIS START AT THE HARLEM COTTON CLUB BESSIE SMITH PERFORMED THE BLUES, SOULFULL MUSIC EVOLVED FROM SPIRITUALS ch?v=DKwu165KS5Y ch?v=DKwu165KS5Y

AP: Word Splash (the Harlem Renaissance)

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND 1920’S POLITICS THE GREAT MIGRATION MADE AFRICAN AMERICANS AN IMPORTANT VOTING BLOCK

THE BLACK VOTE IN THE NORTH MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS VOTED FOR REPUBLICANS, THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IN 1928 OSCAR DEPRIEST BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM A NORTHERN STATE (CHI) DEPRIEST INTRODUCED LAWS AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND LYNCHING

THE NAACP BATTLES INJUSTICE MAIN TACTIC WAS LOBBYING POLITICIANS, BUT ALSO WORKED THROUGH THE COURTS HELPED GET AN ANTI- LYNCHING BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1922 IN 1930 THE NAACP HELPED DEFEAT A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE KNOWN FOR RACIST POSITIONS PROVED THE NAACP HAD THE STRENGTH TO AFFECT NATIONAL POLITICS

AP: Talking Heads 1’s tell 2’s what you learned about the creation of a voting block in the north. 2’s tell 1’s what you learned about the role of the NCAAP in the 1920’s an 30’s.

BLACK NATIONALISM AND MARCUS GARVEY OTHER GROUPS STRESSED BLACK PRIDE AND NATIONALISM MARCUS GARVEY WAS A DYNAMIC LEADER FROM JAIMACA HE FOUNDED A GROUP CALLED THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION BELIEVED AFRICAN AMERICANS COULD GAIN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWER THROUGH EDUCATION GARVEY PLANNED TO LEAD HIS FOLLOWERS BACK TO AFRICA

MARCUS GARVEY-CONTINUED THE GROWING AFRICAN AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DISTANCED ITSELF FROM MOVEMENT GARVEY WAS CONVICTED OF MAIL FRAUD IN 1923, AND IN 1927 PRESIDENT COOLIDGE HAD HIM DEPORTED IN THE END, HIS MOVEMENT INSPIRED MANY PEOPLE W/ PRIDE IN THEIR AFRICAN HERITAGE

AP What were the positives and negatives of the Civil Rights leadership of Marcus Garvey?

Booker T. Washington Vs. WEB Dubois

Assignment Marcus Garvey Importance In reading Assignment.

Learning Log TODAY I LEARNED……… WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE? WHO WAS LANGSTON HUGHES? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COTTON CLUB? HOW DID THE GREAT MIGRATION AFFECT THE POLITICAL POWER OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NORTH? WHAT ACTIONS DID THE NAACP TAKE TO EXPAND POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARCUS GARVEY? HOW DO THE IDEAS OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND WEB DUBOIS DIFFER?