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LEARNING TARGET: I will be able to describe the role that the Harlem Renaissance had on the spreading of African American Culture throughout America, and the impact it had on the market economy.
Illinois Social Science Standards
Illinois Social Science Standards
SS.H.1.6-8.LC: Classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.
SS.H.1.6-8.MdC: Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.
SS.H.1.6-8.MC: Use questions generated about individuals and groups to analyze why they, and the developments they shaped, are seen as historically significant.
Important Vocabulary:
Jazz - a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, melody, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm.
Harlem Renaissance - An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated African American traditions, voice, and ways of life.
The Great Migration - the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
Ku Klux Klan - secret society in the U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups, specifically African Americans, Catholics, and Jews.
UNDERSTANDING A PRIMARY SOURCE
UNDERSTANDING A PRIMARY SOURCE
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
W.E.B. Du BOis was a leading African American writer and thinker. His work throughout the early twentieth century helped give the African American community in America a sense of identity and understanding of their own contributions to the world and America. This excerpt from “The Souls of Black Folk” identify how the African American community struggled between their American identity and a Black identity.
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro... two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.”
John T. McCutcheon, The Chicago Daily Tribune, April 13, 1924
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