PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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An increasing number of African Americans holding office in Southern state legislatures (e.g.Alabama)
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FDR & the New Deal as many African Americans had begun to support the Republican Party in North (countered the political power of Southern Democrats).
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The Great Migration, which had resulted in huge numbers of African Americans moving South (could now vote).
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The Harlem Renaissance & Negro Nationalism (Garvey) during the 1920s, which gave African Americans pride within their own culture & confidence to become more involved within Politics.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The literature of the Harlem Renaissance helped to instill a strong sense of pride, defiance, and confidence in African Americans. It encouraged resistance to racism and challenged stereotypes, and it also reminded African Americans of their roots and the difficulties they had already overcome.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the Black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Contributing factors leading to the Harlem Renaissance were the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities, which concentrated ambitious people in places where they could encourage each other, and the First World War, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was characteristic of black literature during the 1930s and 1940s? Black writers focused on black identity, urban life, and discrimination and poverty.