ABSTRACT
To use first-person sources (diary entries, poems, photographs) to develop ideas around Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement. The Great Migration was a northwards migratory movement that took place in the United States of America between 1910 and 1970. The Harlem Renaissance was a unique coming-of-age social experience that was cultivated and led by the second and third generations of Black migrants who lived in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 20th century, Harlem, New York, became a Black bohemian neighborhood with properties owned by a newly emerging Black middle class, whose families had built economic wealth from their success as migrants during the Great Migration. The lesson suggests looking for photographs of the Black Arts Movement. Pupils will use their worksheet to plan to create an interesting fact file that they will develop over the coming weeks.
