Northerners did not appreciate the blacks moving and taking their jobs and places. The African- Americans moved to get better jobs and more opportunities. Whites stoned and beat the African Americans to try to prove they were "better."
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a time of renewal. The Harlem Renaissance brought light to the African Americans and helped them realize that they weren't as trashy and inferior as they were treated to be.
Marcus Gravey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American-writer who brought light to political issues in the Harlem Renaissance/1920's. She wrote about racism within her own city and family. She brought the issues to light and started a change within her community.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
Claude Mckay
Claude Mckay was yet another writer from the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote about the struggles within the black race.
Liberty Leading the People
Jackie Robinson
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a time of renewal. The Harlem Renaissance brought light to the African Americans and helped them realize that they weren't as trashy and inferior as they were treated to be.
