Center for the American Idea

Background to the Harlem Renaissance

Dr. Robert F. Pace


New York's famous 369th regiment arrives home from France (1919)

I. Plessy v. Ferguson
II. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
III. Sports
IV. The Resurgence of the KKK
V. The Crusade Against Lynching
VI. World War I
VII. The Great Migration
VIII. Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism


Background to Harlem Renaissance Pictures


Booker T. Washington


W.E.B. DuBois


Rube Foster



803rd Pioneer Infantry Band,
Brest, France, July 18, 1919


  
Marcus Garvey


Brief Bibliography of the Background to the Harlem Renaissance

Aptheker, Herbert. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle Against Racism in the World, New York: United Nations, 1983.

Brook, Thomas, ed. 1997. Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books.
Chalk, Ocania. Pioneers of Black Sports. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975.
Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Edited by Amy Garvey. New York: Universal, 1923.
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope : Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Harlan, Louis T. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Harris, Thomas E. Analysis of the Clash Over the Issues Between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B, Du Bois. New York: Garland Publishers, 1993.
Henri, Florette. Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920. Garden City, Doubleday/Anchor, 1975.
Meier, August, Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963.
Stein, Judith. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Zangrando, Robert L., The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950, Temple U. Press, Philadelphia, 1980.


Web Sites:
The Booker T. Washington Papers
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/
The W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
http://www.duboislc.org/
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project,
A Research Project of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/default.htm
PBS The American Experience: “Marcus Garvey”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/
The African American Great Migration, North by South
http://www.northbysouth.org/
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary/main.html


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