Political Aspects of the Harlem

Renaissance
By
Cetera Collie
 Marcus Garvey
“One Nation, One Destiny”
• It was in England that Garvey first came into
contact with “Black Intellectuals”, it was after
meeting these men that Garvey developed his
unique ideas regarding Negro liberation and
Pan-Africanism, or back to Africa, resolve.
• Garvey came to believe that the Black race had
been the victims of a Black Diaspora.
• He believed that the Black Diaspora was a direct
result of colonial slavery and imperialism
Marcus Garvey
“One Nation, One Destiny”
Garvey believed that Africa should have the same purpose as
Israel does for the Jews, a refuge from slavery and exile
 W.E.B. DuBois
• DuBois’ writings had were considered very political and helped to
spark an interest in social movement in Harlem in the 1920s
• DuBois had written novels such as The Philadelphia Negro, The
Souls of Black Folk, John Brown, Black Reconstruction and Black
Folk, Then and Now
• Dubois argued that African Americans had a profound affect on
American culture and civic life especially during the Civil War and
in the aftermath of the Reconstruction.
W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B Dubois is one of the most influential political influences during the time. He sought to push forward a new
wave of political thought.
 The Southern Diaspora
• The Southern Diaspora  may have been the
most momentous American population
movement of the twentieth century.
• It was migration of both races
• The Southern Diaspora transformed American
religion, spreading Baptist and Pentecostal
churches and reinvigorating evangelical
Protestantism, both black and white versions.
 The Southern Diaspora
• The Southern Diaspora transformed American
popular culture, especially music. Such as the
development of R&B, Gospel, Jazz, and Blues
• The Southern Diaspora enabled the
transformations in politics and culture that set
up the Civil Rights era.
 Politics of Oppression
• The Harlem Renaissance period, racism and
oppression was common and virulent all
across America (in both the south and the
north).
• In the 1900s through the 1930s, lynchings
were consistently reported although they
trailed off in frequency as time went on
 Politics of Oppression
• Although the Harlem Renaissance was a high
point in African American cultural history, it
was not seen as such by the many non-African
Americans who did not appreciate African
Americans or their talents
• It was only until decades later that the
achievements and experiences of the Harem
renaissance were widely known and
appreciated