Welcome To the Harlem Renaissance!
This website explores some of the key historical events that led to the Great Migration and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance. We will share pre- and post- Harlem Renaissance factors that led to this great period in history. We analyzed the migration using US Census Data from the 1900 to 1930s. The data tells the story of this historical mass movement of people in search of a better destiny. What do the migratory and geographical patterns demonstrate about their quest? Is geography destiny?
Painting by Jacob Lawrence - The First Wave of the Great Migration (1916-1919) - Part I
Check out his series of paintings expressing the "The Great Migration" ttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/odonnell/w1010/edit/migration/migration.html
*Suitcase Science is part of a larger interdisciplinary project - "The Soul is Global" - being done at Oliver Street School in Newark, NJ. The goal of the project is to study the affects this time period has had on our GLOBAL society in the areas of politics, art, music, dance, and literature. We have included additional work that our students are doing in Language Arts Literacy and Math.
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