America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... During the Great Depression, education for Negroes had not disappeared but was over prioritized by the fact of survival. After the depression, Black leaders and historians such as Lawrence Reddick questioned the pursuit of Black history. ... "The entrance of the United States in World War II provoked a hiatus in the development and expansion of Black Studies The great numbers of Black men with college training were either in the armed forces or working in the war related industries."5...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... During the Great Depression, education for Negroes had not disappeared but was over prioritized by the fact of survival. After the depression, Black leaders and historians such as Lawrence Reddick questioned the pursuit of Black history. ... "The entrance of the United States in World War II provoked a hiatus in the development and expansion of Black Studies The great numbers of Black men with college training were either in the armed forces or working in the war related industries."5...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The end of the second Klan era was marked with the Great Depression and the Second World War, Klan members had found other issues to focus on, such as not dieing of hunger during the depression, instead of white supremacy, and in 1944 the organization was again disband. ...

• Word Count: 1170
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930s during the Great Depression and post-World War Ⅱ. During the Great Depression, colored people found it much harder to find work because of their skin color, and many reverted to being field hands and doing many jobs that used to be considered slave labor in the 1770s to the 1830s. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Smethurst refers to this with the following statement: "This division of Hughes's work into three basic modes can be seen as a reflection of the relative weakness of the Left within the broader African American community in the early 1930s at the same time that the political, cultural, and economic impact of the Great Depression and a new Communist Party engagement with "Negro Liberation" drew African American intellectuals and artists further into the circles of the communist Left (2004).... A more youthful mariner, "The Little Virgin," who is a kind of protégé of the...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunities created by World War I. ...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Harlem Renaissance showed the unique culture of African Americans and redefined African American expression. It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. This African American cultural movemen...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Europe has just suffered the economic depression and thus an individual wants and needs start to intensify, and the competition for new resources i.e. raw materials and new markets began to escalate. ...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As well as financially suffering, the workers health and over all well-being was being compromised a great deal. ... When farmers could not profit from their crops one season it would hurt them a great deal financially for the following season. ... In 1893 the United States was hit with a depression that escalated the amount of unemployed workers that had nowhere to go and the need for the charitable efforts from the settlement house were shooting through the roof. ...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate