Political Issues

GARVEY
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The Harlem Renaissance was filled with some important black political leaders, such as W. E. B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey. Garvey founded the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and was later elected President. He was a Nationalist advocate of black migration to Africa. Garvey and Dubois' views were in direct conflict. Garvey favored separation, while Dubois favored integration (HR Multimedia Resource, n.d.). 

DUBOIS
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Examples of social and political conditions during the Harlem Renaissance included emancipation, southern diaspora, and the "Scottsboro Nine". Emancipation progressed about 20 years before the Harlem Renaissance; it is easy to say that slavery was still alive in the mind of the U.S. The abundance of jobs compared to the racial South began The Great Migration to the North. This was also known as southern diaspora. The "Scottsboro Nine" were nine boys rumored to be looking for government work and were forced off a train and jailed in Scottsboro. Over the next 20 years the case would make certain people famous and change the way people viewed southern justice (HR Multimedia Resource, n.d.).

Courtesy: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/trials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

---Alexis T.

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Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/
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