20.2-The Harlem Renaissance
By: Montiaz Brown
W.E.B. DuBois
Leading voice in African American community
Helped to found the NAACP- help African Americans
Editor of The Crisis
Helped promote a great African American arts movement in NYC in 1920s
Marcus Garvey
He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA
Garvey wanted them to fully pull away from the whites
He highly critical of W.E.B. DuBois and his organization
He was arrested for mail fraud and forced to leave the country
Art work
Aaron Douglas
Idylls of the Deep South
Exemplified the New Negro philosophy
founded the Art Department at Fisk University and taught for 29 years