Lesson on Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

Aim: What conflicts in culture and politics arose in the 1920s, and how did economic developments in that decade help cause the Great Depression?

Bell Ringer: Review journals 123 and 124

J123 / A: The Great Migration brought African Americans from across the nation into organized communities in northern cities. Within these communities, blacks brought older traditions into contact with one another and created a decidedly black culture. These new cultures organized political groups, such as the UNIA and NAACP, popularized the American art form of jazz, and wrote art and literature that reflected on the African American experience. 

Agenda:

1. Harlem Renaissance (CUL): black pride "to be both a Negro and an American" - W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston. 

2. Jazz (CUL): New Orleans, borrowed from blues, ragtime, and other popular forms; improvisation, Louis Armstrong, it became the centerstage of American culture, the "Jazz Age", for background about this uniquely American art form along with audio clips, see the Ken Burns documentary "Jazz" (pbs.org/jazz/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKw4R4C4pEo (1 hour)

3.  UNIA - Universal Negro Improvement Association (CUL): arose to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism. pan-Africanism 

4. Exam Alert: The 2011 AP exam asked students to compare the African American response to racial discrimination during the 1890s-1920s with that of African American leaders in the 1950s-1960s (chapter 26).

5. Lost Generation (CUL): Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) portrayed war's futility and dehumanizing consequences, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). 

"The white crowds who made The Emperor Jones a hit, like those who flocked to Harlem's jazz clubs, indulged a problematic fascination with "primitive" sexuality." page 721

6. Thinking Like a Historian 22 (rest of class)



Terms to know: Adkins v. Children's Hospital, welfare capitalism, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, associated state, Teapot Dome, dollar diplomacy, prohibition, American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes Trial, National Origins Act, Ku Klux Klan, Harlem Renaissance, Universal Negro Improvement Association, 

Home Learning:  

1. Read the rest of the chapter (721-729)

2. Chapter 22 Vocabulary Quiz: Friday, March 16, 2018

3. Chapter 22 IDs due: Friday, March 16, 2018

Enrichment: 

4. The History of the UNIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwvHbuZwsk