President Lincoln waited for a Union victory before announcing the Emancipation Proclamation because the Union needed to show a victorious country defending the slaves in the Confederacy. If the Union didn't have a victory, the slaves would feel left out by the states that tried to save them.
The Harlem Renaissance occurred through the Progressive Era in the US. This time period marked many reforms in an attempt to gain government support for varying groups in the US. In the late 19th century, black activists began highlighting the conditions faced by blacks in the South following the end of Reconstruction. Ida B Wells wrote the Red Record showing the horrors of lynching while WEB Du Bois created the NAACP. This awakening coupled with WWI job opportunities caused many blacks to migrate North. As blacks moved North they settled in neighborhoods together where black culture began to grow with large numbers of blacks together. In New York, Harlem was the hub of writing, music, fashion, clubs, and activism. During the 1920s the jazz clubs would become the center of Jazz Age culture.
In Brown vs Board of Education the Supreme Court that segregation in schools was NOT constitutional. This is important because it marked the end of the “separate but equal” idea that lasted for nearly a century.
George Washington. He was also the first president.
The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis for the theory and practice of communism.
