During WWI and after, African Americans moved to the North in search of job and to escape the increasing

oppression in the South.

Harlem attracted talented and ambitious African Americans by the thousands and it became the home to a new appreciation of African and African American culture.

 Writers, artists and musicians expressed their views and embraced the new black consciousness.

 W.E.B. Du Bois established the NAACP which worked to end discrimination against people of color and promoted the African American art movement.

 Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican by birth, started the UNIA and encouraged Blacks to look to Africa as a source of inspiration and pride.

 Writers and poets expressed their views on discrimination, equality and life and allowed people to see the views of African Americans and understand their point of view.

 Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

James Weldon Johnson Lawyer, poet, musician

Langston Hughes Poet Writer A Dream Deferred

Claude McKay Poet If We Must Die