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Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance & Race in America (Texts (Alice…

- - - - 'state's rights'
    - - the maintenance of the Union / abolition of slavery
    - - victory to the North
      - 'Reconstruction Amendments' to the US Constitution
        
        13th (1865)
        
        abolishes slavery (except in crime)
        
        14th (1868)
        
        garantees citizenship
        
        15th (1870)
        
        garantees right to vote for all men
  - - - freed slaves
  - - - complex
      - brought some gains to the African Americans
        
        1500 African Americans held elected office
        
        Downside: KKK (1867'')
      - 'Redemption' used by Southerners
- - - - goal: intimidate, subordinate minority populationss
- - - - Claude McKay
      - W.E.B. DuBois
      - Zora Neale Hurston
        
        'Their Eyes were Watching God'
      - James Weldon Johnson
      - Duke Ellington
- - - - the world is my oyster
      - a symbol of prosperity or the feminine
      - getting ready
    - - an example of her sex, race, etc.
      - sarcastic?
      - don't care about the consequences, a positive outlook
    - - the whites don't understand
      - musical superiority because of strife
      - inspired *The Color Purple'?
  - - - social class
      - educational incompetence
      - sympathy
    - - Celie acknowledges
      - Shug is a teacher / sexual power
      - Society (silent) vs. Family (ok?)
    - - Harpo 'must' hit Sophia (strong Amazonian)
    - - Nettie's letters - the discovery
    - - letters to God
      - letters to Nettie
- - - - deserving in war, but not at 'home'
  - - - made it a crime to discriminate based on race, colour, sex, national origin
    - - outlawed literacy tests for voting