The Harlem Renaissance, The Gravey Movement and The New Negro



Marcus Gravey Mini Bio
1.) Marcus Gravey influenced some of the best Black activists, such as, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela.
2.) The U.N.I.A. was about black self-determination, self-pride, and pride in ones race. It was also about "galvanizing the ideas of black repatriation to the mother land of Africa."
3.) The Black Star Line was a shipping company, in which Garvey planned to use it to transport passengers back to Africa.
4.)  I think Garvey was so supportive and cooperative with white supremacist's who wanted to send Blacks back to Africa, because that was a goal of his when he started the Black Star Line.
Harlem 1900-1940
1.) Just like "Black Wall Street" Harlem had was highly and mainly populated by Blacks. The Blacks in Harlem were entrepreneurs too; they were store owners, real-estate brokers, funeral directors, and providers of of other skilled services for their community.

2.) The Negro World, was a journal published by Marcus Gravey, that promoted his African nationalist ideas. Like the NAACP, Garvey campaigned against lynching, Jim Crow laws, denial of black voting rights and racial discrimination.
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin is like a tree without roots." In this quote Gravey, is basically questioning how can you call yourself apart of ones heritage and do not know any of your history.
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." This quote by Gravey is insinuating, how if you do not have confidence in yourself, then how do you expect someone else to believe in you.

3.) The banners from the Silent Protest read, "Mother, do lynchers go to Heaven" "Mr. President why not make America safe for democracy," "Thou shalt not kill," "Pray for the Lady Macbeths of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live." In the small article, it doesn't clarify what roles the children played in the march, but if i had to guess, I would say the children were and wanted to be involved in the march, because they wanted others to see that they too are victimized.
4.) Jack Johnson beat Tommy Burns while dancing around the ring and taunting, similar to how Ali did 50 years later.The "Great White Hope" was the search of a white man to beat Jack Johnson and strip his championship title away from him. After Johnson's boxing career, he opened his own super club in Harlem named, Club Deluxe, at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue.
5.) The NY Black Yankees played in the Negro National League from 1936-1948. The team was founded in Harlem. On the teams hectic schedule, it just mentioned that he was punishing. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is best known as a tap dancer and actor of stage and film.

Race Riots: Rosewood and Black Wall Street

The Destruction of Black Wall Street
1.) Greenwood community had such luxuries as, indoor plumbing and a school system that superiorly educated Black children, that created envy between its neighbors.
2.) I think Greenwood gained the nickname "Little Africa", because the town was transformed into a little community amongst all African American's there were they ran their own businesses, created proficient school systems and build churches.
3.) I think Greenwood was labeled "Black Wall Street" because of how the African American community there created so many entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves. They created business centers that included banks, hotels, cafes, clothiers, movie theaters, and contemporary homes.
4.) The National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 black Tulsans during the span of the riots, so their response to the massacre just added fuel to the fire, they weren't on the blacks Tulsans side.
Tulsa Race Riot Today Show
1.)  It was described as a community exploding with opportunity; they had just about every business imaginative own by blacks, from plumbing to shoe shinning to grocery stores.
2.) Dick Rolland was the name of the young man that "assaulted" the white woman. This lynching  separates itself from any other lynching we have learned about in this class thust far, because it was the start of a huge race riot/ massacre.
3.) The interviewers describe the day of the massacre as a "nightmere" and how they were in fear of losing their lives, because the lynch mobs were setting their houses on fire, and just walking up to blacks and shooting them.
The Rosewood Massacre 
1.) I think it took so many years to uncover Rosewood, because like Ms. Minnie Lee, a lot of the victims did not like to speak on the chain of events that took place. At the end of the video Ms. Minnie Lee, admits that she did not want her family to know that she was in the woods fearing for her life, and that she also didn't want them to know what a terrible thing the white people did to her family and many others.
2.) Ms. Minnie Lee recalls the Rosewood Massacre as a haunted memory. She speaks on how as a young girl the whites burned down her grandmothers house and all their belongs, and how they made her grandfather, with one arm, dig his own grave and then shot him in the back as he stood right in front of it, so he could fall in it.
3.)  A man attacking Fanny Taylor in her home is what caused the Massacre.
4.) According to Mr. Fred KIrkland about 700 whites joined the mob. To those running out to the woods, they were shot dead.
5.) John Wright owned a general store and his home was one of a few that survived the fires from the massacre. Wright is remembered as a hero, because he opened up his home to women and children who were running from the mob, and sent out a message to the train, telling them " the town was on fire, send a train." This train helped many blacks escape.
6.) I think Ms. Minnie Lee, like many other victims of racism back then, never spoke on the massacre to her family, because it is something that hurts her deeply and she may be ashamed of that she ever had to whiteness such.