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The Harlem Renaissance and the New Black Migration Conference : The Big Black Migrathlon. And Harlem Renaissance African American Migration, 1920 - Rethinking African American Leadership I Produced : African American President Barack Obama - Summer 1919 I Chicago I Eugene Williams and 4 friends, a young African American Teenager, I Go swimming I cross the AfricanAmerican-Irish border to swim I Unknowingly start a war between African-Americans and Irish on the beach I A white man throws stones at them : Don't think about it I Eugene Williams is hit in the head, loses consciousness and drowns I I His friends run to the police I The white policeman refuses to arrest the white man And the African Americans start running to the beach (I heard a story that the white policeman did it to him did not arrest the white man and refused to save Eugene the beach with shots races The first war lasted 5 days : the Chicago police could not maintain control I At some point the race war becomes a business : Finally the mayor sends more police officers to end the race war I 500 people are seriously injured I 15 whites are killed by the mob I 16 African Americans are killed by the mob I 7 African Americans by People's Police officers killed I 100 homeless due to fires I Riots caused by : Increase in union radicalism due to return of soldiers used as sedatives Competition in the labor market is partly a product of Jim Crow union rules The Irish political machine tends to dominate. but defeated by the Republican machine with African American support - African Americans believed they were keeping Irish and other immigrants out of power0 Therefore, misperceptions or ideas fuel unrest - Migration E 0.5 million African Americans in 1910-191 7 I Millions more displaced in the decade after 19205 I in 1920, inhabited. Doubled growth NMinneapolis etc. And west to Seattle, Oklahoma City causes I Industrialization I Jim Crow Laws in the South I Media Encourages African Americans to Leave the South and Travel to the Freer North I New Travel Opportunities - Jacob Lawrence, “The Great Migration” ; 1 941 - Red, Black, Yellow, no color blocked (I created one color at a time), I wanted to capture the contours of the human experience, not in individual terms but at scale - I wanted a mass story - Aaron Douglas “Aspiration” 1 936 – shows African Americans looking at a city in front of them at a degree angle ; the blue, purple and gray tones make the image seem like a dream, the city is yellow and a star made of viscose - attempts to capture the hope of migration The "New Negro" - Partly derived from the First World War, the one powerful and militant struggle fueled - Partly by World War I, which fueled a powerful and militant struggle for civil rights in America - Riots/movements often follow wars to reorient soldiers who feel they should have the rights, for which they fought - African Americans were ready to go down in flames And "But by God, we are cowards and we wonder if, now that the war is over." When it's over, we don't mobilize our entire Brains and our strength to fight à harder We're back to fight in. It's time for democracy ! Although many African Americans learned what freedom was like in France in 5039 ; and other places during the struggle - Hope and disappointed hope at the same time o The distinction between ghetto and slum I Ghetto - a concentrated demographic unit of a particular ethnic group I Slum - a neighborhood in ruins I We use them interchangeably - bad I Late 20th Century - Ghettos became slums I 1910-192059 Hettos were community centers I Harlem Renaissance - NAACP I Founded 1909 I Interracial I Moderate - focused on activity through courts and legislatures I Political work within the system Never achieved the loyalty of many migrants - due to its top-down structure Never really reached them, even that of the working class - National Urban League I Estimate 1,910 I Focuses on the daily Lives of New Migrants I Fast Aid Society I I helped migrants by getting them help etc.