The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee in 1960, explores the values and attitudes of America in the 1930's through the portrayal of relationships. Mockingbird was written to portray the period of the Great Depression, the Emancipation Proclamation, Jim Crow Laws and the abolishment of slavery. ... Morals and values are a substantial influence in the relationships that were established in American society in the 1930's. ... The social relationships represented in Mockingbird serve to explore the values and attitudes in America in the 1930's. ... This relationship,...

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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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No one has ever said that life is easy, especially those that lived during the 1930's and 40's in an era known as The Great Depression. During the depression, life was an on going struggle for all. ...

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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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Its purpose was to overcome the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. ... The AF of L was a division of many craft unions, sanctioned by the teamsters that had great political influence in during the depression. ...

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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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The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920's and 1930's. ... 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. ...

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It is easy to see why most of his poems of this period (1921-1930) would be cheerful. 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 a...

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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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America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... "Initially as in World War I, they (Black soldiers) were assigned to non combat duties, in accordance with policy and tradition with the war department."1 African American soldiers during the 1930's and 40's not only struggled through adversity of justice and equality during civilian life, but also at the beginning of their respective draft days even during wartime. ... During the Great Depression, education for Negroes had not disappeared but was over prioritized by the fac...

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America had just recovered from an economic depression and now World War II took Americans by surprise. ... "Initially as in World War I, they (Black soldiers) were assigned to non combat duties, in accordance with policy and tradition with the war department."1 African American soldiers during the 1930's and 40's not only struggled through adversity of justice and equality during civilian life, but also at the beginning of their respective draft days even during wartime. ... During the Great Depression, education for Negroes had not disappeared but was over prioritized by the fac...

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The introduction to these very radical politics so early in life had a great impact on his writings and social activism (Berry 10). ... Hughes made moderately good grades and graduated in 1930 with the fifth rank in his forty-five student class (Meltzer 117). ... The onset of the 1930s and the Great Depression only fueled Hughes" commitment towards his radical issues and racial equalities (Berry 27). ... Langston Hughes was a great man in Black rights history. ... Langston Hughes helped shape the culture that we live in today through all of the great things he has done....

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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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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. ...

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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...

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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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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...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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