The 1920s got a lot of its character in entertainment from the Harlem Renaissance. And that wouldn't have happened without The Great Migration. While the results may have been positive, the cause was certainly not.
9:17 "fair skin and darker skin Black Americans". Blacks are on the opposite color spectrum of Whites, while "darker" suggests a relative sense! It's like the euphemism, "older" to refer to old people. In US culture, Black skin and old age are taboo.🤣
Thank you for sharing this awesome video. It still saddens me that this was only 100 years ago, grateful for where we are now, and so very optimistic of the future.
Check out "Arts and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance" on Crash Course - less on the Great Migration but a lot on artists (writers, actors, composers, etc) of the time. Crash Course has created a series of 12-15 min long videos covering topics such as the Great Migration and the Red Summer too. Some of the greatest content theyve produced to date
@@richieredmond7947 1. Unbound by Ann E. Burg 2. Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor These are only ones I can think of right now. If I find more I'll put them here. Hope this helps 😁
Great Job on the presentation of your documentary of The Great Migration- Harlem Renaissance. You were able to capture the essence of a rich history that need to be told more of. Thank you
I was amazed to learn recently that the term "art deco" was only coined in the 1960s. It explains why I just started hearing the term over and over in the late 60s, and wondering what it was, and why everybody was so excited about it. It had been around since the twenties, but never had a name until the sixties.
Concise but still specific and thoughtful analysis of key concepts--great job! I'll be using this to provide background for Their Eyes Were Watching God. Thanks!
What many dont know florida had 2 cities that was known as the harlem of the south during this time one in jacksonville one in miami. Not all blacks in the south went up north. Some went to fl because parts of fl blacks had work and was doing very good. In overtown miami blacks were very successfull. Had their own houses barbeshops stores everything. Alot of famous people from up north like boxer Ali always came down and enjoyed hisself in miami. Whites even attended some events that was held in overtown. But no history wont tell you that. In fl lots of blacks had their own cities away from jim crow where they went to school and everything.
Cool thanks for sharing You could make a video on it. 👍 Not sure why you're boasting about though. It definitely doesn't change Florida being a total trash sh!+ hole of racism now.
These videos are Jake! Great job. You should do a video on Jobs of the 20s that don’t exist anymore, like the upper knocker. Anyhow been loving the videos. Keep it up.
This video was fantastic, thanks for uploading! It’s fascinating, how much we can learn from history and how it’s still so relevant today. With the Black Lives Matter protests happening now, it’s interesting to learn about the changes in society 100 years ago and how those lead to today’s world.
Even the word or term Black means the opposte of what we are taught ....how deep do you want to go ....i will leave it there because it is a vast rabbit hole !!!!
From David A. Wood: If there was ever both a historical period and locale that I would have loved to have lived in, it would have to respectively be the Harlem Renaissance Era of the mid to late 1920s and the Upper Manhattan district of Harlem itself. It would have been really cool to have culturally thrived within an environment populated by socially scintillating people like Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, etc. Also, to have actually lived in Harlem itself, the geographically sprawling, socially teeming and elegantly fashionable district itself having been rightfully regarded during the Harlem Renaissance Era as "The Capitol Of Black America," would have been sublimely ideal as you were surrounded by the ultra stylish, seemingly affluent, and colorfully urbanized residents of 1920s Harlem. All in all, the Harlem Renaissance Era was an emotionally/socially uplifting, cultural period for African-Americans all over the USA, which ironically occurred during a historically problematic period for African-Americans. One could pretty much state that opinion after seriously take into consideration that at the same time during the existence of the sublime and urbanized Harlem Renaissance, you also had throughout the USA both legally codified Racial Segregation (Jim Crow) and a malevolently revived Ku Klux Klan, whose actual members/moral sympathizers regularly committed, with often lethal impunity, what would contemporarily be considered very horrible Hate Crimes.
The fact that Storeyville, the District in New Orleans, was shut down in 1917 also played a major role. The Army wanted to prevent soldiers on the way to Europe from getting VD and the musicians working there lost their jobs. Also, in that year, the first recordings of jazz ( at first written "jass") came on the market.
Great video, but at 57 sec., you said ".... from the north to the south..."- should be from the south to the north. just a minor thing to change. otherwise, well done.
Thomas Sowell is a famous black economist author. He talks and writes about the periods before and after Civil Rights. See his RU-vid channel for an eye opening experience (because he goes against the common narrative).
Just because he goes against the common narrative doesn't mean he's right. He's actually wrong most of the time, or just misinformed. The "common narrative" is common because it's generally what happened, or close to it. He's discredited & famous is an overstatement.
His very first influences lists Marx 😂😂 are you sure you really want to push this narrative?? Famous and infamous are NOT mutually exclusive. And yes viewing his RU-vid channel will be eye opening as in WTAF!?! SMDH keep trying to push your little false narratives to make your racism feel better.
Correction sir!! At 1:00 you said the Great Migration was a name given to the migration of blacks from the North to the South!!! It’s the reverse. We migrated from the South to the north!!
Wow... the KKK & voters suppression...wow Reminds me of America first and gerrymandering, redistricting we are still dealing with today in the conservative state's. Just saying, some things haven't changed in nearly a hundred years... We need to become an education society and come out of the stone age. Teaching people the importance of voting in every single election is a good start.
Absolutely ZERO issue with more people voting. As long as the voting is legal and secure. And NO voter ID isn't voter suppression. You need an ID today for almost everything, EVERYTHING. From renting a hotel room to buying a cell phone. As far as "gerrymandering" goes, yes it's done frequently. The only part I take exception with when's it's done by Republicans it's called gerrymandering. When done by Democrats it's called expanding voter registration rolls.
@@cordiscoscorneryour comment is HILARIOUS as it hasnt aged very well. Why are republicans actively attempting to raise voter age?? Why are republicans currently butthurt a singer (who simply told her fans to vote) just happens to be openly against a certain candidate?? 🤔 And no sorry yo dont need an ID to buy bread (like a fetid loser tried to claim!!). Why not make IDs free then?? If you want to require them, make them free!! I've NEVER heard a republican say that?? And please show any of us where widespread overt gerrymandering by democrats occured?? Now you jave desperate congressional candidates move districts just because they MUGHT have a better chance (hoebert were ALL looking at you!!) Or maybe we should discuss Tommy Tuberville or "Dr " Oz 😂😂😂
An important piece of history is that in the antebellum, the Northern Whites were just as racist as Southern Whites. Several states had laws and constitutions that went so far as to forbid any entry by blacks. So, when the civil war ended, there was no interest in giving the newly freed blacks their own territories, but interest only in forcing the unwanted onto the defeated southerners. Without that, there never would have been any "great migration."
it is hard to get the real story of the takeover of the south and why culture spread to Harlem but this ain't even close- lincoln freed slaves? the slaves were in no hurry to leave?
@@Malcolm.Y yeah i got told this one time. History has so much in it. Its so much hidden history that will never get told and youll have to find out for yourself. Esp in african amercians history. So much learned about my state of florida since florida seems to get left out alot.
@@Malcolm.Y and some from north fl migrated to south fl. All didnt leave fl. But leave it up to the teachers all of the south went up north. Not the case
@@Malcolm.Yunfortunately racist POS live everywhere in our vast country. BTW funny you mention the word oversimplified because I suppose you're oversimplified that there was this magical divide where ALL southern were racist and ALL northerners weren't. That is the biggest oversimplification of this topic 😂
Absent is the entirety of capitalism that had the Black family intact & the most upwardly mobile of all Americans. You could eat off the ground of Harlem in the '20s.
Why did you use that photo with women dominating the picture? As if black men were just "tagging along" with the females, rather than LEADING the migration! Do better, dude.
Not bad but you're missing key points like the record breaking flooding, small pox, and Spanish flu...slavery and stuff sounds good but those people lives were in a state of peril due to those factors and "humanitarian aid".
Do you know that you had the great migration in New York City with Russian Jews Italians And Irish Over 5 million And today stop White Europeans from common head in 1924
