The Harlem Renaissance

  • Migration Faces Chances and Challenges

    African Americans moved because wages were more fair.
    African Americans had a growing political voice
    African American still faced a lot of Racism
  • A New "Black Consciousness"

    As a result of WW1 and the Great Migration, millions of African Americans relocated to Harlem.
  • Garvey Called for Racial Pride

    Garvey Called for Racial Pride
    Marcus Garvey suggested the blacks pick up and leave and go to Africa
    He was a primary new Black leader
  • Jazz Age

    F. Scott Fitzgerald called the 1920's the Jazz Age
    African Americans made this unique music
    Blues Ragtime and European Popular music because the most popular
  • Louis Armstrong

    The Director of jazz and the unspoken leader of it because of the way he used the trumpet