The NAACP And The Harlem Renaissance

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1. The NAACP (Niagara Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded in 1909, it was the most influential civil rights organization in the United States. Their focus was legal strategies that designed to confront critical civil rights issues. NAACP was determined to black citizens should enjoy civil and political rights the Constitution. They have a major victory in 1915 when Supreme Court overturned Guinn V. United States case. NAACP also secure federal law prohibiting lynching. Booker T. Washington believe the NAACP pose a threat so that they can gain support for an association. What he did was wrote to Clark Howell, editor of Atlanta Constitution that: “As a matter of straight fact, this organization is for the purpose of …show more content…

The 3 works that produced the Harlem Renaissance is music, writers and sports. Music happen when the Jazz Age came around in the 1920s aka “The Roaring Twenties”. The jazz age brought music and dance together, even brought the black and whites together to Harlem where they can enjoy themselves and also break the law. In the 1920s, the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act prohibited the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages. They have fun by enjoying of wailing trumpets, beating drums and dancing feet. Black women became famous singers and dancers in Harlem which brought to the big top for example Billie Holiday became one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. But behind closes doors she was a drug addict. If you ever see the movie Lady Sings the Blues who was played by Diana Ross. The movie will tell you all. It was one scene in the movie where Billie was in the bathroom was about to shoot up her drugs, and her lover Louis McKay (played by Billy Dee Williams) caught her and took the drugs away from her. After that happen she started to have a meltdown because drugs was like her comfort zone. Nobody knows what’s going on behind closed doors in the music industry. Look what happen to Tina Turner in her business career, she have to hide her scars and bruises cause her husband Ike was abusing her. It sad to hear the story about these wonderful famous musician on what they went to, but at the end of the day they cope with struggles and become …show more content…

The Great Depression affect American Workers by people lost their savings in bank and home foreclosures, and it was increased in unemployment from 3,216,000 in 1930 to 13,689,000 in 1933. The Great Depression made the economy so bad that they blame Republican Herbert Hoover for the hard times that he put on the African Americans. Despite that it collapse on the African American, but it also worse cash-crop production. African Americans and have to suffered from their living standards. They lost their jobs and they have to gain tenuous foothold because The Great Depression made the economy worst. African American who have built business now has to suffer due to the economy for example; The Binga Bank was Chicago’s first-black owned operated financial institution for the African Americans. The bank made it impact and became an important successful black capitalism and made it aspirations of the black Chicagoans. Then one day, the bank’s assets were too heavily to invest in mortgages that some members lost their job. Binga Bank refused to seize properties of community institutions that it was failure to the bank itself. Some black business survive the Great Depression but it did made the state weak due to the fact the loss of business. The difference between the African American in the North and South during the Great Depression is in the South dozens of African American fireman has lost their jobs because unionized white workers and the railroads brotherhoods intimidated

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