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5 days ago · Date: 1916 - 1970. On the Web: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Great Migration (May 24, 2024) Top Questions. What was the Great Migration? Why did many African Americans participate in the Great Migration? How did the Great Migration affect African American culture?
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- The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban ar...
- Many African Americans in the South found themselves trapped in sharecropping jobs and other forms of debt peonage with no hope of improvement in t...
- The greater economic and educational opportunities led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature. Migrants and their children...
5 days ago · The uninterrupted history of Blacks in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the English colony of Virginia. These individuals were not enslaved people but indentured servants—persons bound to an employer for a limited number of years—as were many of the settlers of European descent (whites). By the 1660s large ...
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5 days ago · Uncover the systemic factors that led to the erasure of the most influential Broadway musicals of the 1920s from our shared cultural memory. Find out why Black musicians Noble Sissle and Eubie...
2 days ago · The Negro American was a Harlem Renaissance era magazine published in San Antonio, Texas, that declared itself to be "the only magazine in the South devoted to Negro life and culture." This particular issue includes a review of Rudolph Fisher's novel The Walls of Jericho (page 13). Courtesy of Michael L. Gillette.
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2 days ago · The Cultural Revolution was the upheaval launched by Mao Zedong during his last decade in power (1966–76). Though it was intended to renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution, it instead had detrimental political, social, and economic consequences for China. Read more about the Cultural Revolution here.
- The Cultural Revolution was an upheaval launched by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong during his last decade in power (1966–1976) to rene...
- Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution because he feared that China would develop along the lines of the Soviet model, which he did not approv...
- Mao Zedong had four goals for the Cultural Revolution: to replace his designated successors with leaders more faithful to his current thinking; to...
- The Cultural Revolution took place from August 1966 to the autumn of 1976. It was officially ended by the Eleventh Party Congress in August 1977.
5 days ago · The prosperity of the 1920s also fostered new social norms and financial innovations, notably women's rights and exuberant stock market investments, which ultimately led to an economic collapse and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. 1920: $687.7 billion. 1921: $671.9 billion. 1922: $709.3 billion.
2 days ago · In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity, sometimes defined as the "late modern period". In the context of global history, the early modern period is ...
