Questions:
Purpose:
The purpose of this piece is to talk about the outbreaks that occurred in Harlem because of colored people being exploited and they took a stance against what was right.
Unknown Words:
Insouciance, gaiety, facade, invective, debacle, inscrutable, trifle
Quotes:
Highlights:
Summary:
This piece was about a riot that broke out in Harlem because of colored people being exploited so they began fighting and taking a stance against the whites to ensure equal opportunities for them in their own communities
Literary Elements:
- Will this be about a riot that occurred in Harlem?
- Was the riot about colored people being exploited or to make a point?
- Why is 125th Street Harlem's main street?
- National Council of Negro Women founded
- 1st successful sit in demonstrated by C.O.R.E
- Known as the 1st major poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- His favorite poetic form was a sonnet
- Born Sept. 15, 1889 - Festus Claudius McKay
- A political agreement severed the tight bond between Mckay and Garvey
Purpose:
The purpose of this piece is to talk about the outbreaks that occurred in Harlem because of colored people being exploited and they took a stance against what was right.
Unknown Words:
Insouciance, gaiety, facade, invective, debacle, inscrutable, trifle
Quotes:
- "..the mass riot in Harlem was not a race riot." (pg. 1016)
- "...their gullibility that gives to Harlem so much of its charm." (pg. 1017)
- "He was bigger following than his rivals." (pg. 1017)
Highlights:
- In the riot they smashed and looted stores, destroying thousands of dollars worth of goods.
- The riot was not a race riot.
- It was directed against the stores.
- A kid was beaten for stealing a trifle and it was caught on camera
- Colored people are the most exploited
- They are gullible
- Colored 'agitators' have exhorted the colored consumers to organize and demand of the white merchants a new deal
- Colored people wanted the same opportunities for jobs as whites, especially in their own community.
- One of the agitators is called Sufi Abdul Hamid
- Hamid's organization is the Negro Industrial and Clerical Alliance
Summary:
This piece was about a riot that broke out in Harlem because of colored people being exploited so they began fighting and taking a stance against the whites to ensure equal opportunities for them in their own communities
Literary Elements:
- Imagery: "smashing stores and looting them and piling up destruction of thousands of dollars worth of goods."
- Hyperbole: "Colored people all over the world are notoriously the most exploitable material..."