LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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A new view on how society treated black people
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A popular new style of music
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A new sense of identity and dignity among blacks
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A jazz musician at the Cotton Club
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Detailed explanation-1: -"New Negro” is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation. The term “New Negro” was made popular by Alain LeRoy Locke in his anthology The New Negro.
Detailed explanation-2: -These forces converged to help create the “New Negro Movement” of the 1920s, which promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics. Evoking the “New Negro, ” the NAACP lobbied aggressively for the passage of a federal law that would prohibit lynching.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the turn of the nineteenth century the term “New Negro” suggested education, refinement, money, assertiveness, and racial consciousness.