Harlem+Renaissance

[|1]The Harlem Renaissance became known for its outstanding black writers, thinkers, musicians, poets, artists and leaders. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement. The Renaissance began around the 1920s and 1930s, or from the time of the end of World War I to the middle of the Great Depression. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement". It was named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. A major factor leading to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the migration of African Americans to the northern cities.

In 1904 most middle class African American families moved away. They moved away from decaying conditions of "Black Bohemia" of mid-town into the newly built suburb of Harlem. The first stage of the Harlem Renaissance started in the late 1910s. This movement took place in Harlem, New York. Many other cultures from the African and Carribean colonies that lived in Paris were influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. One of the things Harlem Renaissance was influenced by was the experience of slavery.While the Renaissance as a historical movement was over, the effects it had on a society were far from finished. The role Harlem would continue to play after the Renaissance, would change the American Clutural landscape forever.

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