The document discusses key events and movements in Black history from the 19th to early 20th centuries, including the Emancipation Proclamation, Reconstruction Amendments, Jim Crow era, Great Migration, founding of the NAACP, Red Summer of 1919, and Harlem Renaissance. It provides context on political issues faced by Black Americans after emancipation and profiles influential organizations and figures that fought for racial equality and a cultural flowering during this period.

1. “Harlem Renaissance:
Political Issues and Major
Players”
By: LaTonya Harris
Atiyah Sanders
Robkeerah Sampson
Michael Jimenez
Ken Ignacio

2. “The Emancipation Proclamation”
• Emancipation ended slavery, but not its legacy.
• Abraham Lincoln issued it but at first his main concern was to
save the Union.
• “Central Act of my administration, greatest event in 19th
century

3. “The Amendments”
• Designed to grant citizenship to and protect the
civil liberties of freed slaves. (14th)
• 13th , 14th, and 15th amendments

4. So now everyone is equal...
Right?

5. Not exactly.
Jim Crow Era(1876-mid 1960s)
• Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste
system which operated primarily, but not
exclusively in southern and border states.
• Not just a series of anti-black laws, but a way
of life.

6. “The Great Migration”
• Estimated 5 million blacks migrated from the south.
• Whites in the South feared that blacks would migrate to the North
• Opened a new beginning for blacks.
• Blacks saw the exodus as a fulfillment of God’s promise.

7. “The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People” (NAACP) and The Crisis
• Formed to help blacks start a new life and
fought for equality.
• Organized local branches.
• Created The Crisis magazine.
• W.E.B Du Bois.

8. “Red Summer”
• The Summer of 1919 saw a National racial frenzy of clashes,
massacres, and lynching.
• Blacks fought back.
• Mini civil war

9. “The Harlem Renaissance”
• During this period Harlem was the Mecca to
which black writers, artists, musicians,
photographers, poets, and scholars traveled.”