As we move to the 1930's swing music becomes very popular. ... In the 1930's as well, radio and motion pictures became more popular. ... In 1930 there was more so a cry for the return or morals and manners. Due to the Great Depression and drop in the economy I would say is one of the main reasons to the differences in culture. ... Fading out of those years and into the Great Depression affected many people's lives, and in a sense brought them to a greater sense of reality. ...

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Shortly after the Great Depression Du Bois" radical views greatly differ from those of his colleagues which in turn causes his dismissal from editor of The Crisis. Black Reconstruction in America, another astounding work of Du Bois published during this time, depicted important roles played by African-Americans during the 1930's. ...

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This movement, including the further growth between 1920 and 1930, is referred to as the "Great Migration."Blacks left the South in astonishing numbers for many reasons: depression in the agricultural southern economy; the World War I industrial boom in the North; growing oppression in the South. ... They were also pushed out of the South by a severe depression that took place between 1914 and 1915, forcing black farmers to lose their lands and their jobs. ... Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer, the pleasure-seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitio...

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The New Negro Movement (later renamed the Harlem Renaissance) emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920's, and then faded in the mid- 1930's. ... The Great Migration from South to North occurred at the end of World War I, in which blacks took advantage of employment opportunities created by the war (Miers 14-18). ... After the 1930's, Cullen avoided racial themes all together ("Harlem" 1). ... "The Harlem Renaissance was shattered by the Great Depression because of naive assumptions about the centrality of culture, unrelated to econom...

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The Renaissance took place between the end of World War 1 and the Great Depression. ... Between 1920 and 1930, almost 750,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity and the more racially tolerant environment. ... The Great Depresion increased the economic pressure on all sections of life. Organizations which had promoted the Harlem Renaissance, shifted their interests to economic and social issues of the 1930's. ...

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Langston Hughes published his first collection of verse, The Weary Blues, in 1926, and his novel Not Without Laughter appeared in 1930. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....

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Harlem Renaissance From 1920 until about 1930 an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African Americans occurred in all literary discussions in the lower Manhattan and upper Manhattan sections of New York City, this African American cultural movement became known as "The Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... One of the factors contributing to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African Americans to northern cities, such as, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1926. ... Hughes continued writing through the...

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