The Harlem Renaissance was also known as “New Negro Movement”. It was from 1918-1930. Technically, the first stage of the Renaissance started in 1917 when Three Plays For A Negro Theater was released. Many of the ideas from this time period were carried on through history and still to this day. It was centered in the neighborhood of Harlem in Manhattan, NYC. The Renaissance was a literacy, artistic, and intellectual movement that gave black culture a new identity. Harlem was the symbol of the new urban African American; many of whom had migrated north from southern states seeking opportunity in the big cities of the north.
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Some of the people that were included in this Renaissance are Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. The older generation of writers and intellectuals served as mentors, such as James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and Charles S. Johnson. The Renaissance influenced many black writers in the later generations, but it wasn’t too popular with literary establishment after it ended in the 1930’s.
dr95mike • Feb 6, 2015 at 9:21 am
This was a time when all blacks expressed their true colors. They showed others that they can have fun and know how to play music and make some writings. It was a time of peace and calm. All blacks had a gift, and they shoowed it to us during the Harlem Renaissance.
jtb22314 • Feb 3, 2015 at 9:05 am
The Harlem renissiance brought forth a new idea about African American people. It established a new idea of African American people and influenced others to enjoy music, art, and life without looking at colors.
zoneout96 • Feb 3, 2015 at 8:50 am
I love this part of black history because their is no real negative vibe around this period.Blacks were able to express themsevles in many different postive ways that benefited history and the future.