The New Negro Movement promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, individualism and expression, economic independence, and reformist politics from African Americans in the early twentieth century. After World War I, African Americans returned from fighting for their country, and came home determined to play a greater role in the United States society.
Many moved from the South to the industrial north, to find sustained work with livable wages. The movement often strikes visions of beautiful poetry and the sound of jazz. It is the long-awaited point where African American talent gets recognition and a platform.
Ma Rainey was one of the first blues singers to record and is often referred to as “Mother of the Blues.”
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