Please read chapters and attachments.
After reading the chapters assigned this week in your textbook, choose one of the following topics to discuss:
Harlem Renaissance:
Who were some of the key political figures that were impacted by the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance?
What were some of their ideas?
How did the Harlem Renaissance provide a support system for African Americans during the Jim Crow era in the South?
Why was New York an ideal candidate for the Harlem Renaissance?
Women’s Suffrage Movement:
How did the Women’s Suffrage Movement influence the 18th and 19th Amendments and therefore affect the social norms of American society?
Entertainment:
How did motion pictures, known as “talkies,” influence race relations in America?
How were non-whites depicted in films?
Violence:
How did events in the 1920s bring lawlessness and chaos of violence in big cities such as New York City, Milwaukee, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Buffalo, NY?
How and why were these cities influential?
22. The New Era | THE AMERICAN YAWP
23. The Great Depression | THE AMERICAN YAWP
24. World War II | THE AMERICAN YAWP
Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II | National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation#background
Executive Order 9066 – FDR Presidential Library & Museum
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/executive-order-9066
New Deal Programs | Living New Deal
Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA] | National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/069.html#page-header
