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

2. 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 

3. 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

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

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

6. Great Migration

7. Activate What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance?
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8. 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

9. 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

11. 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
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12. AP: Word Splash (the Harlem Renaissance)

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. AP: SUMMARY
How did the Great Migration help to create a voting block in the north?
What role of the NAACP play in the 1920’s an 30’s?

17. 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

18. 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

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

20. Booker T. Washington Vs. WEB Dubois https://www. youtube. com/watch

21. Assignment
Marcus Garvey Importance In reading Assignment.

22. 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?