Galilea Rosario
Ms.Faustin
U.S History & Government
Period 1
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. It was known as the “New Negro Movement”, Named after Alain Locke In 1925. New African-American were also included in the Renaissance all across the urban area in the Northeast and Midwest of the united states, Most of the United States was affected by the African Americans. Harlem was the largest of them all. Harlem became an African-American neighborhood in the early 1900s. The Harlem Renaissance began and ended 1919 until the early or mid of 1930s, Many of its ideas lived on much longer throughout history. …show more content…
7, 1897 in Sandersville, Georgia. The exact date of his birth remains unknown because record keeping in rural Georgia for the descendants of slaves was not kept current, according to the historians and family members. Elijah Poole, the son of a minister and whose parents, William and Marie Poole, had 12 other children, had to quit school after barely finishing the third grade to work in the fields as a sharecropper so his family could eat. When he was sixteen years old, he left home and began working in factories and at other businesses. Elijah Poole married the former Clara Evans, also of Georgia. They had eight children, Emmanuel, Ethel, Lottie, Nathaniel, Herbert, Elijah, Jr., Wallace and Akbar. The Poole family was among the hundreds of thousands to migrate from the Jim Crow South, seeking safety and employment. The Pooles settled in Hamtramck, Michigan. Poole struggled to find and keep work as the economy suffered during the Great …show more content…
to do a research on the religion of Islam at that time it was 1935. Muhammad assumed the leadership of the Temple of Islam by the order of the Founder of Islam, Muhammad faced a death plot at the hands of members of the Temple. Muhammad went against the plan and went back to Washington to study and build a mosque there. He was known as many things down in Washington. He was arrested down in Washington on May 8, 1942 for evading draft. He refused to take part in a war with infidels, He also wasn’t eligible to join cause of his age , according to the law he was to old at the age of 45 to join the