1. The 20th Century News
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...
Crowder points out in an article in the December 1977 issue of the Western Journal of Black Studies, "it is no longer sufficient to devote the entire month to the celebration of great Negro contributions to the American mainstream." ... The month of February is significant and recognized in African American history for the birthdays of great African American pioneers and institutions. ... There are plenty of greatest african american people, for me was difficult choose only one biography do I decided to make a litlle biograpy of all ones that i considere inportant: Armstrong, Louis Danie...
The great depression of the 1930s increased the economic pressure on all sectors of life. ... a riot in Harlem in 1935 "set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community "shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro. ... Almost one-third of the books published during the Renaissance appeared after 1929. ... The use of nature for this purpose draws characters/speakers to life and adds great depth to his works. ...
., January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams. ... My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. ... He grew up in the middle of the Great Depression, and from a very young age it became a great concern to him, particularly when he saw the people standing in the breadlines. ... He commanded a great deal of respect (and sometimes fear) from the black community and as King believes also won "the grudging respect of...