CW16 – p521/528 Vocab

African-American Life

• The limitations on black business actually created the opportunity to have a business cater to blacks.

• Some success stories but many black-owned businesses struggled

• Music created by blacks develops into jazz and blues

• Black athletes faced much discrimination towards playing with and against whites.

Black Businessmen/Entrepreneurs• Jim Crow laws

restricted many black businessmen from rising up any company

• Due to the segregation, black communities soon developed their own small businesses run by blacks

• Madam C. J. Walker was many the most successful black businessperson… she sold hair products for black people and became a millionaire.

African-American Labor

• Thousands of blacks worked in factories and mines across the country

• Many blacks were barred from the labor unions• Knights of Labor were first to allow blacks in the union• With the support of some unions, blacks across the country

negotiated with businesses and even strike on occasion.

Black Professionals• Black doctors were

discriminated against, they couldn’t work in white hospitals and black patients were segregated from the whites.

• Soon black colleges started medical degree programs to create doctors to serve the black community in black hospitals.

• Basically the same conditions and narrative go with black lawyers.

Music

Ragtime Emerged in the 1890s, typically used piano and banjo and no lyrics, very popularhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc

Jazz First developed in New Orleans, mostly improvised, brass/drums and vocals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

Blues Adapted from old slaves songs, usually sung of the struggles of everyday life, by 1920 jazz and blues were most popular music in America.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A

Sports

• Boxing was most popular sport in America

• Jack Johnson became heavyweight champion and people were offended, they waited for the “great white hope” to defeat him

• When baseball became the first professional sport, blacks were included, but then pushed out, they form their own league, the Negro League.

• White colleges would not allow black students to compete in sports, the black colleges started their own leagues as a result.