USH2 Unit 4: Equality and PowerLesson 4.1 = Harlem Renaissance and Civil Rights

standards

USH.H.4.3 USH 2 Analyze the social and religious conflicts, movements and reforms that impacted the United States since Reconstruction in terms of participants, strategies, opposition, and results USH.H.4.4 USH 2 Analyze the cultural conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted 

What students will know and do

Students will know how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics, and culture of the US.

Students will do: Active Listening Evaluating and viewing films

for modeling Note taking from presentations Brainstorming Cooperative group learning Group discussion Debate (silent grafitti) or Word

splash Compare / Contrast Categorizing/sorting/

classifying Graphic Organizers Models, Graphs, Flow charts Venn Diagram Read Aloud Reading Primary Source

Documents Summaries

Unit overviewStudents will understand how

tensions between freedom, equality, and power have shaped the political, economic and social development of the United States.

Essential QuestionHow did the Harlem Renaissance

impact Civil Rights in the United States?

New Negro

ActivateWhat do you

know about the Harlem Renaissance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bc2Tekynis&list=PLXgoPmW-LCpykUMF7a61wZtZ8eSDhqPkR

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS JOINED THE GREAT MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH TO NORTHERN CITIES

AS THE NORTH’S AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION GREW, IT INFLUENCED CULTURE AND ARTS

NEW YORK CITY’S HARLEM NEIGHORHOOD BECAME THE CENTER OF THE FLOWERING AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS

THE WRITERS TWO OF ITS WRITERS

WERE CLAUDE MCKAY AND LANGSTON HUGHES

MCKAY’S VERSES REFLECT DEFIANCE AND CONTEMPT FOR RACISM (pg 617)

HUGHES BECAME THE LEADING VOICE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

JAZZ, BLUES AND THEATER

LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTRODUCED AN EARLY IMPROVISATIONAL STYLE OF JAZZ MUSIC

BANDLEADER DUKE ELLINGTON GOT HIS START AT THE HARLEM COTTON CLUB

BESSIE SMITH PERFORMED THE BLUES, SOULFULL MUSIC EVOLVED FROM SPIRITUALS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwu165KS5Y

AP: Word Splash (the Harlem Renaissance)

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND 1920’S POLITICS THE GREAT MIGRATION

MADE AFRICAN AMERICANS AN IMPORTANT VOTING BLOCK

THE BLACK VOTE IN THE NORTH

MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS VOTED FOR REPUBLICANS, THE PARTY OF LINCOLN

IN 1928 OSCAR DEPRIEST BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM A NORTHERN STATE (CHI)

DEPRIEST INTRODUCED LAWS AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND LYNCHING

THE NAACP BATTLES INJUSTICE

MAIN TACTIC WAS LOBBYING POLITICIANS, BUT ALSO WORKED THROUGH THE COURTS

HELPED GET AN ANTI-LYNCHING BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1922

IN 1930 THE NAACP HELPED DEFEAT A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE KNOWN FOR RACIST POSITIONS

PROVED THE NAACP HAD THE STRENGTH TO AFFECT NATIONAL POLITICS

AP: Talking Heads1’s tell 2’s what you learned

about the creation of a voting block in the north.

2’s tell 1’s what you learned about the role of the NCAAP in the 1920’s an 30’s.

BLACK NATIONALISM AND MARCUS GARVEY OTHER GROUPS STRESSED

BLACK PRIDE AND NATIONALISM

MARCUS GARVEY WAS A DYNAMIC LEADER FROM JAIMACA

HE FOUNDED A GROUP CALLED THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

BELIEVED AFRICAN AMERICANS COULD GAIN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWER THROUGH EDUCATION

GARVEY PLANNED TO LEAD HIS FOLLOWERS BACK TO AFRICA

MARCUS GARVEY-CONTINUED

THE GROWING AFRICAN AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DISTANCED ITSELF FROM MOVEMENT

GARVEY WAS CONVICTED OF MAIL FRAUD IN 1923, AND IN 1927 PRESIDENT COOLIDGE HAD HIM DEPORTED

IN THE END, HIS MOVEMENT INSPIRED MANY PEOPLE W/ PRIDE IN THEIR AFRICAN HERITAGE

APWhat were the positives and

negatives of the Civil Rights leadership of Marcus Garvey?

Booker T. Washington Vs. WEB Duboishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGLm7VUbIWE

AssignmentMarcus Garvey Importance In

reading Assignment.

Learning Log TODAY I LEARNED……… WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE? WHO WAS LANGSTON HUGHES? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

THE COTTON CLUB? HOW DID THE GREAT

MIGRATION AFFECT THE POLITICAL POWER OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NORTH?

WHAT ACTIONS DID THE NAACP TAKE TO EXPAND POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS?

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARCUS GARVEY?

HOW DO THE IDEAS OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND WEB DUBOIS DIFFER?