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The New Negro Movement
The New Negro Movement
1920 - 1940
- 1920 - 1940
- promoted a renewed sense of racial
pride, cultural self-expression, economic
independence, and progressive politics.
- ”Harlem Renaissance”
1870 1900 1910 1916
Freed slaves move past Harlem becomes a final The NAACP is Madame Walker
slavery destination founded moves to Harlem
• The opportunity to
reshape the African-
American heritage as
an intellectual one to
whites
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creative
Expression:::
MUSIC
Louis Armstrong
TYPES OF
LITERATURE
JJAZZ
POETRY
• “demonstrates
jazz-like rhythm or
the feel of
improvisation”
• Poetry in which
the poet responds
to and writes
about jazz
Characteristics of Literature
Cha
THE JAZZ AGE DUALITY URBANITY
SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM
• civil rights activist, writer,
composer, politician, educator
and lawyer
• Banjo (1929)
Claude McKay
• an American poet, novelist,
children's writer, and
playwright
• Color (1925)
• I, Too (1926)
(America never was America to me.) (It never was America to me.)
Cross
- By Langston Hughes
My old man’s white old man I’s sorry for that evil wish
And my old mother’s black. And now I wish her well
If ever I cursed my white old man My old man died in a fine big house
I take my curses back. My ma died in a shack.
If ever I cursed my black old mother I wonder were I’m going to die’
And wished she were in hell, Being neither white nor black?
THANKS FOR
YOUR
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