![]() ![]() Novelist and du Bois protege Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1924 novel There Is Confusion explored the idea of Black Americans finding a cultural identity in a white-dominated Manhattan. Civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man in 1912, followed b y God’s Trombones in 1927, left their mark on the world of fiction. Two of the earliest breakthroughs were in poetry, with Claude McKay’s collection Harlem Shadows in 1922 and Jean Toomer’s Cane in 1923. ![]() This considerable population shift resulted in a Black Pride movement with leaders like Du Bois working to ensure that Black Americans got the credit they deserved for cultural areas of life. Additionally, during and after World War I, immigration to the United States fell, and northern recruiters headed south to entice Black workers to their companies.īy 1920, some 300,000 African Americans from the South had moved north, and Harlem was one of the most popular destinations for these families. In 19, natural disasters in the south put Black workers and sharecroppers out of work. Du Bois leading what became known as the Great Migration. Outside factors led to a population boom: From 1910 to 1920, African American populations migrated in large numbers from the South to the North, with prominent figures like W.E.B. ![]()
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