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The New Negro
New emerging Black culture
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History
Undergraduate 3
12/18/2015
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Harlem Renaissance

 

What does it do for A. American Culture?

 Definition

Cultural, social and artistic explosion

From end of WW1 to mid 1930s

 

Creates pride in A. American culture
Term
Where does Blues music come from?
 Definition

Comes from the South

 

Field songs

 

Goes mainstream
Term
Bessie Smith
 Definition
Becomes highest paid artist in country
Term
Race Records
 Definition

Ma Rainey

 

Bessie Smith
Term

Ok eh records

 

W.C. Handy

 Definition

Goes after A. Americans specifically

 

"Father of Blues"
Term
IWW
 Definition

Wobblies are 1st to let A. Americans in

 

Wobblies preach insurrection

Want to destroy wage system and American econ.

 
Term
Scottsboro Eight
 Definition

8 Coloured boys falsely accused of gang-raping a white girl

 

Youngest boy is 12

 

All but 12-yr-old sentenced to death by all-white jury

 

Judge reverses sentence-->Life in prison instead

All boys eventually released
Term

2nd New Deal

 

WPA

 

SS Act

 Definition

Accomplishes more than the 1st

 

Employs millions of unemployed ppl

Gives them construction, roadwork, and employed musicians, artists, etc.

 

Gave benefits (welfare, old-age benefits, etc.)

Most black ppl didn't qualify
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