HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten, W. E. B. Du Bois

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 106
• Professor: Unterman Katherine

Document Summary

Movement of african americans from the south into northern cities mostly during and after wwi. Internal migration push factors: push out of south, segregation, little chances for advancement, violence. Pull factors: need for factory labor, new willingness to employ blacks in factories because their previous employees now fighting in the war. No more ready supply of cheap immigrant labor. 1920"s, more than half of the american population lived in cities, now urban nation. Black rebellion, white culture is not the only important culture. Art and music changed in the entire country. W. e. b dubois publishes and gives start to harlem renaissance writers. A place of sex, cocaine, and whiskey, all a taxi away from white new york . The new negro: book that says the new negro will be proud of his/her race, will be outspoken and militant in receiving equal rights. Wrote poem the negro speaks of rivers published by w. e. b dubois.