The Harlem Renaissance brought many great changes. ... Unfortunately, he watched Harlem decline with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... The Great Depression marked the end of the Harlem Renaissance. Thousands of people were out of their jobs; it was a sad and dangerous place to live, after the depression. The impact of the "Great Depression" upon African-Americans was devastating. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2437
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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, the party didn't last into the next decade and the country fell into a deep depression. ... On top of the financial difficulties the depression brought, widespread racism re-surfaced in the North. ... The line about Louis Armstrong refers to the great jazz trumpet player, the first black man to be recognized as a successful jazz artist by a white audience. ... Its tone reeks of depression and self-pity, "On the shoals of Nowhere, Wasted my song Yet taken by the sea wind And blown along."" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Maya Angelou is the ultimate Renaissance woman and is one of the great voices of contemporary literature (mayaangelou.com). ... During the time that Maya was growing up, America was just recovering from the Great Depression and it was also a time when African Americans were oppressed. ... Because nobody could handle the deep depression Maya faced, she was sent back to live with her grandmother in Stamps. ... Maya has made a great impression on American Literature; she is a living legend. ...

• Word Count: 1253
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• Grade Level: High School

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 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. ... The use of nature for this purpose draws characters/speakers to life and adds great depth to his works. ...

• Word Count: 1518
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• Grade Level: High School

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

The war ended a decade-long depression for whites, and a century-long depression for blacks. ... This migration was steady through the 1920s and even during the Great Depression did not slow dramatically. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The 20th Century News July 4th, 1929 What Goes Up Must Come Down???? With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. With new found freedom minorities began to fight for more rights and rightly so; sadly they came to many dead ends. The control given to the government was s...

• Word Count: 2136
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• Grade Level: High School

At the time the United States was in the midst of a severe depression, African Americans found themselves in beggary (Sharp 82). ... As the U.S. emerged from the Great Depression two years later, Japan invaded China and Hitler's Nazi Germany took much of Europe. ...

• Word Count: 1633
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was brought up during the worst time, being divided by not only racial segregation but the Great Depression during the 1930's ("Malcolm X.... "Malcolm eventually becomes a great speaker. ... Malcolm X is a great historical figure and left a lot of great footsteps for the post-generation. ... I believe that the film provided a great amount of imagery. ... He died leaving a really great outcome. ...

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: High School

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

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 190s and the 1940s, speaking for the poor and homeless black people who suffered during the Great Depression. ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

Woodruff worked through the depths of the Great Depression in order to find a teaching job that would influence the poor students of Atlanta. ... During this time he also produced several great works of art. ... Hale Aspacio Woodruff arose from the depths of society to prove that he had what it takes to become great. ...

• Word Count: 1549
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• Grade Level: High School

Has Gospel Music Gone to Far Changed? Being that the church is the cornerstone for gospel music, the songs adopted into hymnals sung by both choir and congregations passed from generation to generation. The change in gospel music has effected today's youth that have shown interest in the up be...

• Word Count: 1353
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Many schools that provided a great education for young minds were for whites only and blacks did not get their chance to expand their minds. ... Even large modern day companies employed African Americans throughout the 1900's, like Walgreens which even managed to employ African Americans during the Great Depression. ...

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Over the years, Disney's animated films have received a great deal of criticism due to their misrepresentation of African Americans, as well as other ethnic groups. ... Dumbo was released in 1941 at the tail end of The Great Depression. ...

• Word Count: 1585
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(5) Keynesian economics proclaimed that growth can be engineered and a stagnant economy can be heated up to prevent future depressions. ... " (12) There were two political mistakes that Johnson made that ultimately stifled the Great Society. ... Johnson thought that he could fund the Great Society at home, as well as support the war against communism in Vietnam; later he regretted leaving the "lady he loved" for the war in Vietnam. ... In addition, it handcuffed him politically because he condemned violence and worried that it would impede the Great Society. ...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Precision, production, craft, and repair If an analysis was done to compare the statistical measures of today, verses that during the 1930, during the Great Depression, the numbers would be off the chart. ...

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" A later reference to a baby who is cared for by others gives the hint that the narrator may be suffering from post-partum depression. ... Both characters continue to live in a world where they are second-class citizens, and it is possible that even great artistic talent will not save them....

• Word Count: 1543
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• Grade Level: High School

" A later reference to a baby who is cared for by others gives the hint that the narrator may be suffering from post-partum depression. ... Both characters continue to live in a world where they are second-class citizens, and it is possible that even great artistic talent will not save them....

• Word Count: 1543
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School