The Harlem Renaissance
...that took place in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. It is variously known as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Literary Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement.
This movement developed at the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and faded in the mid 1930s. This movement developed amid social and intellectual disturbance in the African American community in the early 20th century and impacted cultures in various ways.
The Harlem Renaissance affected urban centers throughout the United States and across the cultural field through literature, drama, music, visual art, and dance. It also made strides in the realm of social thought of sociology, historiography, and philosophy; artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North. The Harlem Renaissance grew out of the changes that had taken place in the black community since the cancellation of slavery and which had been the cause and effect of the First World War. It can also be seen as the retaliation and expression of the great social and cultural change that took place in America in the early 20th century under the influence of industrialization and the beginning of a new mass culture. It included the Great Migration, during which time, hundreds and thousands of educated and intellectual black African Americans moved from an economically depressed, low budget rural south to industrial cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and New York City, to take advantage of the job opportunities created by World War I. As more and more blacks settled in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York, it became a political and cultural mecca for black America.
The Harlem Renaissance reflected a social and intellectual change in the African American community that took place in the 19th...
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