Bell Work 1.  During World War I, South Carolina experienced growth in: a. public schools c. banking b. military bases d. television staBons Answer: b 2. Which of the following was not a post World War I improvement in South Carolina? a. rural electrificaBon
c. civil rights for African Americans b. sanitaBon systems
d. suburbs grew Answer: c •  Economy
•  Society & Culture
•  Mass Production
techniques
•  Invention of New Home
Appliances
•  Mass Media
•  Improvements in urban
life
•  Installment Plan
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the nation
as a whole in the 1920s, including the
contributions of South Carolinians to the
Harlem Renaissance and the Southern
Literary renaissance.
Renaissance-”Re-birth”
Examples
•  Age of
Enlightenment
•  Scientific
Revolution
•  Italian
Renaissance
Non-Examples
•  Industrial
Revolution
•  Progressive Era
•  American
Revolution
The Southern Literary Renaissance
A reinvigoration/revival of Southern Literature
after WWI
It began in the 1920s and 1930s with the
emergence of new writers from the South
William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Tennessee
Williams
Southern Literary Renaissance
•  This period was a very important period in
American Literature
•  Responding to criticisms of South Carolina as a
cultural wasteland, the Southern Literary
Renaissance furthered the celebration of South
Carolina’s heritage.
•  The Poetry Society of South Carolina led this
revival and contributors included Julia Peterkin,
who won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and
DuBose Heyward, who wrote Porgy, which later
became the opera Porgy and Bess.
•  The Southern Literary Renaissance was a revival
of Southern Literature after WWI
CFU •  What was the Southern literary Renaissance? Answer: A revival of Southern Literature a9er WWI The Harlem Renaissance
An African American Cultural movement in 1920s
America during which black art, literature and
music experienced a renewal and growth.
Originated in New York City’s Harlem district.
The Harlem Renaissance •  South Carolinians contributed to the arts through the
Harlem Renaissance.
•  This cultural renaissance was the result of the Great
Migration that brought African Americans to the cities
of the Northeast and the Midwest and furthered the
development of a growing black middle class. African
Americans left the South in response to push factors
such as Jim Crow discrimination, violence and
poverty, and pull factors such as job opportunities in
the Northern cites.
•  The Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture
of African Americans and brought recognition and
The Harlem Renaissance
An African American Cultural movement in 1920s
America during which black art, literature and
music experienced a renewal and growth.
Originated in New York City’s Harlem district.
CFU •  What was the Harlem Renaissance? Answer: An African American Cultural
movement in 1920s America during which
black art, literature and music experienced a
renewal and growth.
•  Where did this cultural movement originate? Answer: Harlem Causes
What events and movements do you think may have helped lead
to the Renaissance?
Great Migration:
the movement of
hundreds of
thousands of
African
Americans from
rural areas in the
South to urban
areas in both he
North and South.
What push factors led to the migration? What pull factors led to the migration?
Causes
Growing African American Middle Class: developed
as a result of improved educational and employment
opportunities for African Americans.
The Harlem section of New York became the center of this
new African American class.
Impact
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a
deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before
After
Modernism & the Harlem Renaissance •  Blacks view surge in art, music and literature as the creaBon of a new cultural idenBty. •  Whites see it as another new, exoBc, and trendy form of entertainment. The Harlem Renaissance William H. Johnson- of Florence,
South Carolina,
Canvases
with vibrant color that
captured the dance halls, jazz bands,
and the emotion of the era. Johnson
traveled to Paris in 1926, where he
settled, painted, and studied the
works of modern European masters.
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and
the nation as a whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction
caused by the boll weevil, the rise of mass media, improvements in daily
life, increases in tourism and recreation, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan,
and the contributions of South Carolinians to the Harlem Renaissance and
the Southern Literary Renaissance.
•  Students will complete chart explaining the cause and
effects of changes in SC including the Southern Literary
Renaissance and the Harlem renaissance.
•  I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find
relevant information about the changes in SC and the
nation as whole including the Southern Literary
Renaissance.
•  We Do: Work together finding relevant information about
the changes in SC and the nation as a whole in the nation
using informational text and graphic organizer
•  You Do: The students will create a newspaper article or
mural explaining the causes and effects of the Southern
Renaissance Changes in South Carolina and the Na2on Cause Effect Contribu2ons of South Carolinians Southern Literary Renaissance -­‐A reinvigora2on of Southern Literature a>er WWI Harlem Renaissance-­‐ An African American cultural movement in 1920s America during which black art, literature and music experienced renewal and growth, origina2ng in New York City’s Harlem district. Southern Literary and Harlem Renaissance Changes in South Carolina and the Na2on Effect(s) Cause • 
Southern Literary Renaissance – A reinvigora2on of Southern Literature a>er WWI • 
The opening up of the predominantly rural south to outside influences due to industrial expansion that took place in the region aPer World War I. Came about in response to criBcism of South Carolina as a cultural wasteland. • 
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Changed the focus of Southern writers from focus on historical romances about the lost cause of the Confederate States of America, which glorified the heroism of the Confederate army. Instead the focus became 1. The burden of history in a place where many sBll remembered slavery, ReconstrucBon, and a devastaBng military defeat. 2. ConservaBve culture 3. The South’s trouble history in regards to racial issues. Many future Southern writers were inspired by the writers of the Southern Renaissance. Contribu2ons of South Carolinians •  Julia Perkins won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature •  Dubose Heyward wrote Porgy which later became the opera Porgy and Bess Southern Literary and Harlem Renaissance Changes in South Carolina and the Na2on Harlem Renaissance-­‐ An African American cultural movement in 1920s America during which black art, literature and music experienced renewal and growth, origina2ng in New York City’s Harlem district. Cause Effect(s) • 
Result of the Great MigraBon that brought African Americans to the ciBes of the • 
Northeast and Midwest. • 
Contribu2ons of South Carolinians Exalted the unique • 
culture of African Americans and brought recogniBon and pride to black arBst in a variety of genres, parBcularly musicians. The radio helped spread appreciaBon for new trends in • 
music such as jazz to white audiences and promoted a shared naBonal culture. Also further pointed out the second class ciBzenship of African William H. Johnson-­‐ A major American ArBst (Visual arBst/
Painter). Johnson traveled to Paris where he sealed, painted and studied t h e w o r k s o f modern European masters. H e c r e a t e d hundreds of works. Closure • 
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Use your Graphic organizer What was one cause of the Southern Literary Renaissance? What was one effect? What was one cause of the Harlem Renaissance? What was one effect?