A quick overview of why African Americans moved to Northern cities at the beginning of the 20th Century and how Harlem became the center of African American culture.
Slides CapTechTalks Webinar March 2024 Joshua Sinai.pptx
Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
1. As you read Langston Hughes’
poem “The South,” be thinking of
these questions:
What does the poem reveal about
life in the South?
What does the poem suggest is the
solution to life in the South?
What does the poem reveal about
life in the North?
2. Read “One Way Ticket”
What does it say about life in the
South?
3. What Langston Hughes is
describing here is a process called
“The Great Migration” when
African Americans in large
numbers left the South to move to
big cities in the North, such as
Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, and New York.
4. They left to escape the racism and
discrimination of the South as well
as for the job opportunities of the
North.
5. Those African Americans that went
to New York City inevitably ended
up in Harlem, on the northern
edge of Manhattan Island, and
what developed there through the
1920s and 1930s was a period that
became known as the “Harlem
Renaissance.”
6. As you listen to these songs, each
by Duke Ellington, what is the
mood that each selection evokes:
East St. Louis Toodle-oo
The Mooche
Mood Indigo
7. Listen for connections across varied
disciplines as you read the fourth
paragraph of Lindy Hop in Harlem: The
Role of Social Dancing. Think about
examples from today's popular culture
that show connections across music,
dance, and art.
8. When you look at these paintings, what
do you see/feel?
Street Life, Harlem by William H.
Johnson Jeunesse by Palmer Hayden
9. Listen to “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers.” What do you think it
means?
11. What were you able to learn about
the Harlem Renaissance by
listening to jazz music?
…by reading an essay?
…by looking at paintings?
…by reading/listening to poems?
Answer these in a writing
assignment due on Friday, March
2, 2012