1. The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War. During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life, actively confronting racial prejudice as well as economic, political and social challenges to create a black urban culture that would exert enormous influence in the decades to come.
2. Life was not much better for African Americans, they stilled faced discrimination and violence.
3. Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914, this group moved to NYC in 1918 and opened offices in urban ghettos in order to recruit followers. This group revolved around Garveys idea that African-Americans should build their own society to escape discrimination.
4. All genres of music was derived from black people. Jazz music especially. Jazz music in this era broke down the cultural barrier and united people of different races together to just enjoy music. This was very different from the strict segregation it used to be.
5. Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood.
