ENGLISH 3EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Music Of Africa, Narration, Zora Neale Hurston
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The harlem renaissance brought to a close by the 1929 stock market crash and the entertainment centre closed down. Migration of african americans to the north slowed but did not stop from being used to break available in northern cities (shift of african american voters to the democratic. The congress of the industrial organization (cio) broke away from the american. Federation of labor (afl), which had blocked african americans from joining. Grew up in all-black town of eatonville, florida. Great depression of the (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:885)(cid:882)"s patronage dried up, much of harlem as an. Public aid for the unemployed under roosevelt"s new deal was more easily unions cio encouraged integrated unions, at least in part to prevent black labour. Turned towards socialism and communism to deal with class divisions from the (cid:891) young black men were accused and imprisoned for (cid:498)raping (cid:888) young white girls(cid:499) this did not happen they were not pardoned until years later.