Moving On To The Promised Land Summary

Moving On To The Promised Land
Post slavery African Americans knew they had to leave the south if they were to escape the harshness of it. They moved in vast majorities to the Northern part of America in search of a better life for themselves as well as their offspring. This phenomenon known as the Great Migration was the start of the black excellence. Racism and discrimination were rampant at the turn of the twentieth century former slave owners and their descendants sought to bring blacks down in order to ensure they were still at the top of the social class. Discrimination in the south slowed the economic and educational progress of black men; There was considerable variation in literacy, education, occupation, property ownership, and other measures in 1910. This Variation in turn hindered the progress of
Like a blooming flower in the spring African Americans were seized from blooming or showing their excellence. Artists of literature in the Harlem Renaissance era such as Langston Hughes and Jessie Fauset made it a point to not only write on the harsh realities of discrimination, or prejudice in the everyday black man's life but how and why immigrants fled to various destinations. In her book Plum Bun novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset explores the troubled mind of her main character Angela Murray, A black female who passes as white to have her idea of a perfect life. The author not only tells us the thoughts of the main character Angela, but the thoughts of those who surround her giving readers a true feeling of life in the early twentieth century. Plum Bun seems is a great depiction of people of color and their strive for equality as well as greatness in the 1920s, as the novel dissuades readers from the well known fantasized life of