USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following publication is credited with helping promote the tremendous literary advancement that took place in New York City in the 1920s?
A
The founding of the NAACP
B
The magazine The Crisis
C
The creation of the UNIA
D
The publication of God’s Trombone
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s and had Harlem in New York City as its symbolic capital.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Crisis magazine is the official publication of NAACP. It was created in 1910 by renowned historian, civil rights activist, sociologist and NAACP co-founder W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois founded The Crisis in one room of the New YorkEvening Post building in New York City and edited the publication until 1934.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most importantly, the Harlem Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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