african american studies 40a week 8: the great migration and the harlem renaissance

African American Studies 40A

Week 8:The Great Migration

and

The Harlem Renaissance

Key Concepts

• The Great Migration• Role of the Black Press• Chicago Defender• lynching• Sharecropping• Red Summer 1919• The New Negro• The New Negro Movement a.k.a.

The Harlem Renaissance

Key Concepts

• Marcus Garvey

• Back to Africa Movement

• United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

James VanDerZee, Marcus Garvey (1919)

William Pickens

W.E.B. DuBois

Francis J. Grimké

Black Nationalism:

The set of beliefs or the political theory that African Americans should maintain

social, economic, and political institutions separate and distinct from

those of whites.