Slide 2 Flappers and the Lost Generation: Slide 3 What was the
Great Migration North and West? Slide 4 Jobs for African Americans
in the south were scarce and low paying, so African Americans moved
to cities in the north and midwest in search of better employment
opportunities and better housing conditions Slide 5 African
Americans faced discrimination and violence in the North and the
Midwest, but not as much as they had in the Jim Crow South Southern
family arriving in Chicago during WWI. Slide 6 What was the Harlem
Renaissance? Slide 7 The Harlem Renaissance African American
artists, writers, and musicians based in Harlem revealed the
freshness and variety of African American culture. Slide 8 These
Harlem Renaissance leaders drew upon the heritage of black culture
to establish themselves as powerful forces for cultural change.
Slide 9 The popularity of these artists spread to the rest of
society. Slide 10 Musicians of the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance
Slide 11 In music, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were both
famous jazz composers. Slide 12 Bessie Smith was a famous blues
singer. Slide 13 Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s Music
George Gershwin composed unique American music that tells a story.
Aaron Copland wrote unique American music that evokes strong
emotions. Slide 14 Artists of the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance
Slide 15 What was the cultural climate of the 1920s and 1930s? ART
In art, Georgia OKeefe was an artist known for urban scenes,
flowers, and later, paintings of the southwest. Slide 16 Slide 17
In art, Jacob Lawrence was a painter who chronicled the Great
Migration north and west. His paintings were done in the 40s. Slide
18 Slide 19 Writers of the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance Slide
20 Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s Literature John
Steinbeck was a novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant
workers in the 1930s. Slide 21 In literature, Langston Hughes was a
poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural
roots. Slide 22 A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to
a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or
fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Slide 23 Democracy will not
come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have
as much right As the other fellow has As the other fellow has To
stand On my two feet And own the land. Langston Hughes (Lincoln
University 1928) Slide 24 Cultural Climate of the 1920s and 1930s
Literature F. Scott Fitzgerald he was a novelist who wrote about
the Jazz Age of the 1920s. Slide 25 The End
