Daily Review #27 "Race in 1920s"

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Name of the 3 square mile area of NYC where African American culture thrived in the 1920s.

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Harlem

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Considered to be one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance, he was a novelist, social activist, and jazz poetry.

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Langston Hughes

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Segregation laws such as these were part of the reason over 1.5 million African Americans left the south in the Great Migration.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Race riot in 1919 started due to an African American man who drifted into an unofficial "white only" swimming area.

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Chicago Race Riot

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One of the largest and most destructive race riots in American history, it destroyed the area of Greenwood known as the Black Wall Street.

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Tulsa Massacre