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The Dangerous South pg. 3 Ya Like Jazz?? Pg. 4 Advertisement pg. 5 Harlem is Crazy!!pg. 6 Advertisement pg. 7 Back To Africa? I don’t think so… pg. 8 Back To Africa Movement picture pg. 9
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Difference Makers Blacks achieved success in some places in the 1920s, while in other places they continued to face hardships. Young Harvey Spencer has spent his life living in the deep South. As a young boy, Harvey witnessed African Americans getting lynched. He experienced segregation and white supremacy groups. He was told he could not attend the white school despite having the grades to do so. He hid during the race riots. Harvey Spencer is only 14 years old. His experience are not unique to young African Americans and not unforgettable growing up in the deep South. In fact, his experiences are normal for any African American living in the deep South. Harvey was born during World War I. His parents believed that since African Americans served in the war in Europe, it would change how African Americans are treated in the United States. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Instead, African Americans are still facing violence, intimidation, and segregation in the United States. Blacks have not been successful in ending segregation, race riots, lynching and white supremacy groups.
Despite the many successes blacks have achieved, they are still facing extreme hardships. The reason why blacks haven’t been truly successful in the ending segregation are because of the white supremacy groups and the KKK. Mostly because most blacks were afraid of the Klu Klux Klan and the white supremacy groups, so most things didn't change. White Supremacy groups use violence and intimidation to threaten blacks. White supremacy groups burned down houses and killed people for violence. Then for Intimidation for most families if they get involved their family will get hurt or killed. What do you think blacks should do to end hardships in the south? Our group believes that African Americans should stay in America , solve the problems, and focus on concentrating on economic self improvement. They can solve the way they are treated by more of them joining the NAACP, and trying to make a difference.
In the 1920’s four blacks went to court to see if they could get a trial for injustice. The court dismissed them before getting an actual trial. The NAACP picked up the case and took it to the supreme court. The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP beat the case for their race.
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The Dangerous South Despite the contributions of blacks to World War I, is the South still becoming more dangerous for blacks? Nautyca Heidelberg
In the 1920s blacks achieved
success in some places and in others places they continued to face extreme hardships. Hopefully next year will be better for them. But despite the contributions of the World War I, the South is still becoming more dangerous for blacks each in every day. In my opinion I think the South is still dangerous for blacks and becoming dangerous for blacks. The south is becoming more dangerous because of Lynching, Race Riots, Klu Klux Klan, But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is trying to make the south better for blacks, also known as NAACP. With lynching it made an ugly comeback recently but blacks were also murdered by lynch mobs in the past. But also in this past summer race riots have erupted.
For lynching like I said before it made a very ugly comeback recently. When lynching is happening blacks are getting murdered or seriously injured in different sizes mobs. Most blacks don't make it out alive, and they are forced to watch the person in front of them getting lynched. After a while lynching became nation wide. Just last week there was a lynching mob marching during our streets, in our city, our town. Lynching mobs were one thing but race riots were another issue we were having. For race riots African Americans got killed, badly injured, and there houses would end up burning down. The Klu Klux Klan made a huge impact on blacks. It started back up again recently following the years the civil war ended. It followed the civil war as a protest against reconstruction. It faded out but came back by the 1923 this also went nation wide like lynching. Soon the Klan had over one million members. I know what you're thinking why did the klan come back and start back up again? It started back up again because the Klu Klan Klan supported traditional things. Like traditional families values, and were against new modern life. As in Jazz, movies, and Divorce.
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Ya like Jazz?? What is this new musical form called jazz, and how is it changing American music? Kolby Godbolt
Jazz is becoming a new style of
Jazz has a lot of different styles. This
music and it’s changing America. More
is because everyone plays it differently.
people are finding new ways to express
There is 49 different types of jazz and the
themselves. It sped up the tempo of music.
most popular type is the swing. People are
This creates new opportunities for people
starting to make different types of jazz after
who don’t know how to read music. Jazz is
they play a different way than others.
a type of music that you can play whatever you want. Jazz brings blacks together while
Jazz has made blacks migrate North
white composers are bringing jazz outside
to play in bands. It is really popular in New
of speakeasies.
York. This helps blacks get out of the South and have something to look forward to in
Jazz is a happy and lilting style of
the North. Jazz is helping blacks start a
music. It’s a mix of blues and ragtime. In
movement. It helps unify New York
jazz you just play what you want there's no
because it doesn’t matter if you are black
certain way. You don’t have to go off a
or white performing.
sheet of paper. This new style of music is bringing more diversity.
Duke Ellington is a big part of jazz. He was born in Washington D.C. and is a leader of a jazz orchestra. He is known as the jazz king because he created the swing type of jazz. His jazz career has lasted for fifty years. 5
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Harlem Is Crazy!! How did the harlem renaissance impact american culture.
First of all what is the Harlem
This Act did many things including
renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance is
making african americans able to create
an outpouring of creativity among african
music, art, and become writers. It also
american writers, artists, and musicians
brought many jobs to this community. After
who gathered in Harlem in the 1920s.
the stock market crashed and the harlem
Africans wanted to get a point across with
renaissance started to fade but it didn't
this act they simply wanted to get equal
matter cause it made a path for future
and civil rights. Another way to look at this
generations in american culture and
is the revival of Harlem.
politics.
Alot happend to harlem in the 1920s such as african americans came to northern states from the south to work in factories. Which is one of the causes why harlem became the greatest negro community the world has known. Harlem represented african americans attempt and democracy.
The Harlem Renaissance did contribute a lot towards american culture. It was the first time african americans really got to express the type of people they really are. African Americans made the public more interested in literature and reading. African Americans started to take their place in society in meaningful ways.
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Back to Africa? I don’t think so… Is the “Back-to-Africa Movement” the right way to go for blacks facing discrimination in the United States? By: Ja’Myrion White The American dream...freedom, jobs, opportunity, and equality. Certainly, if you are a white, anglo-saxon American you are living the American dream. African Americans and immigrants are not so lucky. African Americans and immigrants are living an American nightmare. This nightmare can end but creating a separate country in Africa is not the way for African Americans to achieve greater equality in the United States. Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican born immigrants who believed that blacks should return to Africa and form their own country. This was known as the back-to-Africa movement. Garvey believed that African Americans were not being treated fairly in the United States. Once Jim Crow laws were legalized in ex-confederate Southern states, African Americans were treated like second class citizens. Blacks were required to use separate public facilities such as bathrooms, restaurants, theaters, buses, and stores. These facilities were much different than the public facilities that whites used.
While in theory, Garvey has a great idea, blacks should not leave the United States to form their own country in Africa. If all blacks leave the United States then that doesn’t solve the issue of race problems in the United States. If anything, it contributes to race problems because most whites want blacks to live in a separate country. The United States should be a place where all races are equal. In addition, it doesn’t make much sense to create a separate country in Africa because it is very expensive and Garvey could potentially make money off of blacks trying to leave the United States. All of this shows that blacks could leave but should not leave the country because they could fight for equality and their rights to be respected in the land of the free and opportunities and not have to deal with fighting and worrying about people trying to lynch them or hurt their families.
Blacks also were experiencing violence and intimidation by white supremacist groups in the South. One group, the Ku Klux Klan, targeted African Americans by beating and lynching any blacks who fought against them. Most lynchings went unsolved and no one was convicted of any crimes. Lynchings have increased in the South as more blacks fight for equal rights. Marcus Garvey argued that if blacks formed their own country in Africa they would be allowed to choose their own form of government and their own laws. They would be treated with equality in their own country.
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Kolby bib “Duke Ellington.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 Nov. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington. Frey, Wendy, and Diane Hart. History Alive! TCI, 2004. Robot Check, www.amazon.com/Books-Stephen-Feinstein
Nautyca Bib Works Cited “Curriculum for Teachers & Textbook Publishing Company.” TCI, www.teachtci.com/. History.com Staff. “The Roaring Twenties.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2010, www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties. “The Reemergence of the KKK.” Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/ri se-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/the-reemerg ence-of-the-kkk.
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