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How The Great Migration Impacted The Harlem Renaissance

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How the Great Migration Impacted the Harlem Renaissance

Faith Quinn
US History
Mr. Nelson
4/8/2015

Faith Quinn 1
The Harlem Renaissance was a significant social and cultural movement throughout the 1920‘s and 30‘s. It was a time when much of the history of the African American people were given a voice through the creative efforts of those who were directly involved and affected by the Great Migration. It had a great impact on what life was like for these people and their families and also impacted the society as a whole. This Great Migration began at the end of the start of World War I from 1917, however many African Americans had begun migrating even before then. After the Civil War, at the end of the 19th century when the African Americans were no longer bound to their former masters as slaves, they began to migrate. This was called Reconstruction and began in 1865. Suddenly everything that they once knew and how they lived changed. They were free now but not truly considered equal by the whites of the south. They were now forced to migrate from place to place in order to find work and attempt to build a life for themselves and their families, and after World War I, they were able to migrate to the north to more urban settings to find work.# This movement was called the Great Migration and it led to and affected the Harlem Renaissance by inspiring great works of art from artists such as Langston Hughes and many others

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