The Struggle For African American Equality: 1915-1950
The Struggle for African American Equality: 1915-1950
Many blacks in the south were exposed to very harsh situations on the physical and mental levels after the reconstruction era. Racial discrimination and the Jim Crow Laws put pressure on the blacks to stay away from whites as much as they can. After World War 1 boll weevil infestations devastated many cotton farms and their workers dreams of supporting their families. One Georgia man said he left the south because of his "desire to escape harsh and unfair treatment, to secure a larger degree of personal liberty, better advantages for children, and a living wage. Not many moved out of the south though because of having little information about jobs elsewhere. The North drew in African Americans because of the new job surge. Before the war immigrants controlled the factories with their cheap labor wage, but during the war there were no longer immigrants. This opened the door for …show more content…
Many of the key figures who were jazz musicians field played in nightclubs. The audiences were mainly black but white people also drove into Harlem to see them play. Black artists also expressed the richness of their culture through pictures, paintings, and murals most famously done by Aaron Douglas. One of the greatest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance was Alain Locke, she compiled black writings in 1925 and eventually other publishers took notice and incorporated more African Americans into their publishing's.
The movie "Birth of a Nation" glorified the KKK. It made it seem as though they were helping the nation and provided a sense of security for the whites. The KKK perceived blacks as being unintelligent figures in society who contributed nothing to help the growth of the country. They commonly assaulted, arrested, and murdered blacks to try and drive them out of the
Many blacks in the south were exposed to very harsh situations on the physical and mental levels after the reconstruction era. Racial discrimination and the Jim Crow Laws put pressure on the blacks to stay away from whites as much as they can. After World War 1 boll weevil infestations devastated many cotton farms and their workers dreams of supporting their families. One Georgia man said he left the south because of his "desire to escape harsh and unfair treatment, to secure a larger degree of personal liberty, better advantages for children, and a living wage. Not many moved out of the south though because of having little information about jobs elsewhere. The North drew in African Americans because of the new job surge. Before the war immigrants controlled the factories with their cheap labor wage, but during the war there were no longer immigrants. This opened the door for …show more content…
Many of the key figures who were jazz musicians field played in nightclubs. The audiences were mainly black but white people also drove into Harlem to see them play. Black artists also expressed the richness of their culture through pictures, paintings, and murals most famously done by Aaron Douglas. One of the greatest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance was Alain Locke, she compiled black writings in 1925 and eventually other publishers took notice and incorporated more African Americans into their publishing's.
The movie "Birth of a Nation" glorified the KKK. It made it seem as though they were helping the nation and provided a sense of security for the whites. The KKK perceived blacks as being unintelligent figures in society who contributed nothing to help the growth of the country. They commonly assaulted, arrested, and murdered blacks to try and drive them out of the