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Title: The Great Migration


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The Great Migration The Harlem Renaissance
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What is the Great Migration?
  • Started in the beginning of the 1900s
  • Involved the mass exodus of millions of African
    Americans from the South to the North
  • Over 1 million were estimated to have migrated
    north
  • Greatly influenced the Harlem Renaissance

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Why migrate?
  • Freedom
  • Treatment
  • Crop infestations
  • Technological Innovations
  • World War I
  • Racial backlash by whites
  • Job Opportunities
  • To prove their identity

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Why Go North???
  • Fill up jobs
  • Political Freedoms
  • Better life

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Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Advantages
  • Freedom
  • Identity
  • Better chances for education
  • Formation of large communities
  • Disadvantages
  • People killed
  • Racism in north often just as bad as south
  • Poor schooling for large communities
  • False perception of lots of opportunity

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How was the North Affected?
  • Population increase
  • Economy
  • Not welcomed in the beginning, even from some
    African Americans

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How did the Great Migration affect the Harlem
Renaissance?
  • Music
  • Art
  • Food
  • Civil Rights
  • Power of the People

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The Harlem Renaissance
  • It was a cultural nationalistic movement caused
    by the GREAT MIGRATION
  • "originally called the NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT
  • "spiritual coming of age" in which the black
    community was able to seize upon its "first
    chances for group expression and self
    determination."

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Impact of the H.R.
  • Black Migration, south to north, changed their
    image from rural to urban, from peasant to
    sophisticate
  • A rich source for racial imagination and it freed
    the blacks from the establishment of past
    condition

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Major Contributors to the H.R.
  • Langston Hughes
  • Writer poetry, novels, music, short stories
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Socialist, Public Speaker
  • Louis Armstrong Billie Holiday
  • Musicians
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Writer novels, poetry

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