Download Harlem Renaissance

The
Turbulent
Twenties
Uneven
Prosperity
Changes to everyday life
•Cars replace
horses.
•Highways appear
all over the U.S.
•Gas stations,
garages, and billboards are all put
up because of
people traveling in
the car.
• Refrigerators, vacuum
cleaners, washing
machines all make
domestic life easier.
• Electricity starts to
reach rural areas.
By the mid-1920’s most homes have radios.
• By the end of
1920’s “Talkies,”
motion pictures
with sound,
come out.
Flappers
• Flappers were young
women of the
twenties who dressed
in a bold new style.
• They wore make-up,
dresses above the
knee and rolled down
their stockings.
• They were considered
very loose women.
• In both rural (country) & urban (city)
settings, African Americans
faced huge difficulties = among the
poorest people in the 1920’s.
• Harlem was the largest black urban
community at the time.
• African Americans in the 1920’s faced
racial hatred & segregation.
African Americans in the 1920’s faced
racial hatred & segregation.
• A newspaper, published black authors, for
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, began
the NAACP.
• The Harlem Renaissance was a period of
cultural rebirth of Harlem.
• Harlem Renaissance authors cried out
against the social injustice they saw.
• They demanded full equality for blacks.
Black artists and writers
become famous.
• Langston Hughes
was an AfricanAmerican poet and
author.
• He wrote about the
problems people of
color faced in
America.
• Hughes wrote the
Harlem Renaissance.
• Jazz and Blues was music brought by
black musicians from the South to the
North.
• Black musicians come to fore front with
this “new” music.
• Most jazz clubs were white only• Jazz musicians could play there but they
couldn’t sit at the tables and listen .
Famous musicians were:
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Duke Ellington,
Cab Calloway,
Louis Armstrong.
They played in clubs
like the Cotton Club,
• they played there but
were not allowed to
go as a customer.
• The Harlem Renaissance ends in 1930
with the Great Depression.
• No one had money to go to shows.