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Week VI. {Topics}{Personalities}{Readings}{Multimedia}

The New Negro

TOPICS >>>

African-Americans in the Progressive Era
Ku Klux Klan in 1920s
Great Migration of Blacks to the North, 1915-1950s
Black sharecroppers
The Great Migration, 1915-1960
World War I 1917-1918
The Red Summer of 1919

The state of Black America:
Demographics, 1910

The Harlem Renaissance:
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora N. Hurston,
Jean Toomer. Critic: Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)

Political Militancy in the Twenties:
Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association
Jamaican nationalist, 1887-1940
Negro World newspaper
Black Star Line/ Black Cross Nurses/Negro Factories Corporation/
African Legion/ based in Harlem, NY; +700 chapters across US
Est. membership one million people at height of movement
Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Mail Fraud Prosecution
"Garvey Must Go" Campaign supported by NAACP
debate between Du Bois vs. Garvey

PERSONALITIES >>>

W.E. B. Du Bois, author, The Souls of Black Folk, editor, The Crisis,
co-founder, NAACP-- 1910 Double Consciousness of the Negro;
The Color Line: the Talented Tenth; Criticism of Booker T. Washington

William Monroe Trotter

Ida B. Wells, editor, Free Speech and Headlight; anti-lynching activist and prominent black feminist

Anna Julia Cooper, author, A Voice from the South--1892; early black feminist

Hallie Q. Brown, prominent public speaker, Wilberforce College professor

Gertrude Bustill Mossell, contributing editor, New York Age; author, The Work of the Afro-American Woman, 1894.

Mary Church Terrell, president, National Association of Colored Women, 1896; DC School Board, 1895-1906; prominent black feminist, liberal Republican leader

Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founder of Cookman College, Florida, 1905; Problems of Racism in the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920

READINGS >>>

Giddings, When and Where I Enter, Chapters VIII, IX, X and XI, pp. 135-197.

Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, Chapter I, "God Bless the Child: The Story of School Desegregation," pp. 1-35.

Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Two, Number 17, pp. 230-233; Section Three, "Introduction," pp. 237-242, and Numbers 1-8, pp. 242-295.

MULTIMEDIA >>>

Music:
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Duke Ellington - "Take the 'A' Train"
Bessie Smith - "I'd Rather Be Dead And Buried In My Grave"
Bessie Smith - "Jail House Blues"
Bessie Smith - "'T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do"

Poetry: Langston Hughes, "I, Too," "Harlem," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Films: Clip of Rosewood Ð depicts racist attack against all-black Florida town in 1920s.
Clip of black soldiers in World War I.
Historical clips of Harlem in the 1920s, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois.
Historical clips of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Huddie "Leadbelly"
Ledbetter.

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