Afro-American Literature Dates 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? HistoryLiteratureUniversityAll boards Created by: chloeelbCreated on: 28-12-17 17:13 1783 End of American Independance War. 1 of 32 1810 Abolition of slavery in all the States of the North. 2 of 32 1813 New generations of reformers. Demand the abolition through out the US. 3 of 32 1813 - 1865 Slave narrative dominated the literati. 4 of 32 1853 Frederic Douglas published The Haroic Slave based on a rebellion. 5 of 32 1859 First novel by an Afro-American women: Harriett WILSON 'Our Nig'. 6 of 32 1861 - 1919 Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction 7 of 32 1861 Harriett JACOB published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. About sexual explanation of slaves girls and women often rapped. 8 of 32 1865 13th Amendment: Abolition of slavery. 9 of 32 1866 Creation of KKK: brutal oppression and took 2-3 years to destroy the institution and replaced the legislation. 10 of 32 1868 14th Amendment: Legal protection for Afro-American under the law. 11 of 32 1870 15th Amendment: Right to vote for black men. 12 of 32 March 1877 Reconstruction Act: End of various code that restricted the rights and liberties of Afro-American. 13 of 32 1877 Jim Crow laws. Associated with the Segregation and equal ideology. For black people it was the decades of disappointment. 14 of 32 1920s Decade of creativity in all arts for black African, much took place in NY. 15 of 32 1928 Black people started to write fiction. 16 of 32 1940 - 1950 Time of Confrontation: wanted to protest / denounces. Particpated to the war. Second wave of Great Migration. 17 of 32 1940s - 1950s Afro-American writers focus on the life of black people in big cities and black ghettos. Blacks used new language, idioms -> form of resistance. 18 of 32 1948 End of segregation in the arms forces. 19 of 32 1954 'The brown decision' desegregated public school. 20 of 32 1955 Montgomery bus boycott with Rosa PARK. 21 of 32 1950s - 1960s Decolonisation + independance of European countries. New images + styles. New kind of drama -> Drama of Nommo = inspired from West Africa. 22 of 32 1960s International Diplomatic Crisis + black power 23 of 32 August 1963 March on Washington 'I have a dream...' New kind of protest. 24 of 32 1964 Civil Rights Act: Equal to black people. 25 of 32 1964 Martin Luthr King Nobel Peace Prize. International reconnaissance for all black people. 26 of 32 1965 Malcom X death 27 of 32 1968 Martin Luthr King assassinated 28 of 32 1960s - 1975 Vietnam war. Communist vs Capitalism. 50 000 american killed. 29 of 32 Last quarter of 20th century True Afro-American Renaissance -> Impact of Afro-american artistic on American world. 30 of 32 1980s Consciousness Afro-American were Amercian citizens, member of a community. New black music inspiration. 31 of 32 1990s Renewedin autobiography. New story about gronwing up black. 32 of 32
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