Essay On African American Immigration

World War I and the Great Migration led African Americans to getting industrial jobs in northern cities in the United States. This also led to their right to vote and gave them a degree political influence over their community. These new jobs and liberties resulted in an increase in racial tension between white Americans and African Americans. From 1917 to 1919, lynchins of African Americans almost doubled. In 1921, the African American residents of Rosewood, Florida, armed themselves after a violent lynching. This resulted in a brutal mob killing African Americans and burning their houses, which the authorities refused to stop.

In the north and Midwest, racial tension increased due to the vast number of African Americans moving into the

They believed Europeans brought in radical religious and political views. To weaken this treat, Coolidge Administration and congress passed the immigration law in 1921 and then the National Origins Act of 1924 that set yearly quotas on the number of European immigrants from each country allowed into the United States. The law initially allowed for two percent of each country based on 1890 census data. However, considering very few Europeans immigrated to the United States during that time, the number of immigrants allowed into the United States was also very low. In 1929, congress passed a bill that further limited European immigrants to 150,000 per year. The limiting of European immigrants also increased the number of Latin American

Artist consisting of poets, writers, musicians, and painters alike moved to Harlem to affirm their ties to African and promote African pride. Langston Hughes, a poet, wrote a series of poems based on inspiration from the song The Weary Blues. Jacob Lawrence, a painter, created art that depicted the life and anger of African Americans growing up in harsh conditions. Zora Neale Hurston wrote a series of stories and novels based on folklore she collected from her travels to the Caribbean and the southern United