African Americans Equality
Many of the African Americans who were brought here to be slaves managed to make it through the hard slave times and through the horrible discrimination after the Emancipation Proclamation. ... ""The New Negro," by Alain Locke (1925)" Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation freed the African Americans they were still under the control of the white men. ... Williams)" Between 1916 and 1929 approximately 300,000 African Americans moved from their southern farms up north to the cities. Many of the African Americans who moved to the north were unskilled workers; this made them perfect for factory work. ... Many of the African Americans who moved wrote letters back to the south. ... 7, 1917)" The Great Migration of African Americans also brought forth a new culture of young African American, poets, writers and musicians. This Harlem Revolution was a ways of the African American people to have a voice. Many white people from nearby cities came to listen to the African American poets and musicians.