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    The Harlem Renaissance was a time after World War 1. It was also called “New Negro Movement.” It was named that because the cultural, social, and artistic explosion with black American culture. Poetry was one of the main sources that helped lift people’s spirits in the city of Harlem at the end of the war. There were many of famous black poets during that time. Three of the most famous poets were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman. Langston Hughes was one of the most famous

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    Imagine the bustling streets of Harlem during the 1920s, African Americans are in finest clothing that they can buy going to their new jobs, people are chatting loudly as they walk down the stone streets; Harlem clubs were vivid during the night, as people danced to swing music and Jazz music. It was during this time where the african americans were free to work, to create, and to learn without any backlash. They were no longer considered slaves; but rather brothers and sisters of america who now

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    period known as the Harlem Renaissance, which was a cultural movement of the 1920s in Harlem, New York. During this time period, African Americans exercised a new found freedom of expression, which led to extensive achievements in art, music, and literature. The Great Migration influenced the Harlem Renaissance because when they migrated North they were able to express themselves in a new way they never could before. Writers like Claude McKay contributed to the Harlem Renaissance by writing about injustices

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    Originally called the New Negro movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to prove to the world that they had finally overcome oppression. According to the Harlem Renaissance by Richard Wormser, “The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that stimulated an explosive wave of literature, visual art, music and intellectualism amongst the Black community in Harlem from the 1920s until the mid-1930s. It was a chapter in a splendid and venerable progression and became a time for cultural celebration and advancement for Black Americans. The roots of the Renaissance can be linked to the Great Migration during WWI (Sayre, 2014), as a result of harsh and relentless racial discrimination and disenfranchisement

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    “The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.” (Historycom, 2017). The movement allowed African Americans to receive exposure for their art, Moreover, it lasted for over 20 years. The African American Art provided a distinct perspective of creativity from the artists. The Harlem Renaissance was the focal point of African American Music, as a

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    The Harlem Renaissance was the most important movement in regards to both American art history and resistance art. The movement spoke to a new generation of artists, thinkers, poets, and scholars to discuss African American pride, history, social, and cultural attitudes within a form. This was also known as the New Negro Movement, stemming from the 1920s where African Americans sought to educate, shock, and celebrate their own culture. Public inspiration in Harlem became popular due to the works

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an event that started during World War One and lasted until the 1930’s. The Harlem Renaissance reshaped art, music, literature and theatre in the African American community. One debated during the Harlem Renaissance was whether folk art or high art best represented racial pride. Folk art best represents racial pride because it does not imitate other people’s art it shows the lives of everyday people, and people could relate to it. One of the reasons why folk art best represents

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    not until the evil intentions of slavery crossed mankind’s thoughts that hue became our downfall, our separator. White supremacy eroded the idea of equality, and darker hues began to symbolize worthlessness, inferiority, and ugliness. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s evoked the idea of black consciousness and pride. It was a movement established to express black literature, art, music, and culture. Blacks began to wear their dark hue like a badge of honor. Art, literature, and music became the

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a time era that began in the 1920s and it marked a period where a cultural, social, and artistic explosion took place in Harlem. This happened between the end of World War 1 and during the middle of the 1930s. Harlem was a place where most African Americans wanted to be, many of them actually migrated there which was known as The Great Migration. With all the fascinating things that we benefited from the Harlem Renaissance represented a rebirth of culture. The Jazz and

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