HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway
10 Sep 2017
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Agenda: we"ve talked this week about roaring twenties. Inclusions and exclusions: politics, immigration, entertainment and consumer culture. Demographic and culture transformation: the great migration, the arts. Beginnings of great migration: 1910: 7/8 aa pop in south, wwi as turning point (push and pull) Agricultural disasters: during the 1900 added to the push factors, cotton, dropping prices, cotton failures. Encouragement from black press: people in rural locations are more interested to these press, more influence to move to the north, enormous exodus 1910-1930. Conditions in northern cities: better jobs, but continued racism, segregation, lack of mobility. Jobs were better because they were paid in wages. But no streets paint with gold situations: tensions with white and ethnic workers. Continued race riots : men and women needed jobs to make ends meet. A lot of women went into domestic labor: unsanitary living conditions, higher morality rates. Growth of urban ghetto : rent goes up, people move into smaller places.
