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    Life during the Harlem Renaissance was full of music‚ dancing‚ and different art forms. The Harlem Renaissance was an exciting era for African Americans. From music to writing‚ African American culture was spreading in the north‚ the mecca being Harlem in New York. This movement could not have happened without the Great Migration. The Great Migration was an emigration of 6 million African Americans from the south to the north. This move occurred because of a boll weevil epidemic that caused

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time‚ it was known as the "New Negro Movement"‚ named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City‚ many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1][2][3][4] The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid-1930s.

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    Jonathan Valladares The Harlem Renaissance: An era of Social Change Thesis: The 1920’s Harlem Renaissance was an era that provided an opportunity of literary and artistic advancement for African Americans. The movement also reached social thought of sociology‚ and philosophy. Writers like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen promoted social equality through obscure themes and morals expressed in their writings. With its origins in Harlem‚ New York the renaissance affected the United States through

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    in the North. Between 1920 and 1930‚ almost 750‚000 African Americans left the South‚ and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity and the more racially tolerant environment (Harlem Renaissance - Biography.com - Biography.com). The Harlem section of Manhattan‚ known as the capital of black America‚ drew nearly 175‚000 African Americans‚ turning the neighborhood into the largest urban community of black people in the world with residents from the South‚ the

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    The trials and tribulations of the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance‚ also referred to as The New Negro‚ was a period of newfound artistic and social freedom for African Americans beginning in the early 1900s and ending in the early 1930s. The renaissance served to create a consciousness of identity for African Americans‚ while also forcing white Americans to confront the importance of the ethnics. The creation of the New Negro in Harlem represented the liberation of the last vestiges of

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    Harlem Renaissance‚ a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture‚ particularly in the creative arts‚ and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary‚ musical‚ theatrical‚ and visual arts‚ participants sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes that had influenced black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free of Victorian moral values and bourgeois shame about aspects of

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    Harlem Renaissance Known also by the names “New Negro Movement” or Black Renaissance”‚ the Harlem Renaissance symbolized an enriched movement among African Americans between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression. The names given to this movement shows its main features. The words "Negro" and "black" mean that this movement centers around African Americans‚ and the word "renaissance" refers to something new was born or‚ more specifically‚ that a cultural spirit was brought

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    Book When Harlem was in Vogue‚ David L. Lewis’s celebrated account of the Harlem Renaissance‚ was published by Knopf in1981. The latest edition‚ a Penguin paperback with a luminous new preface added by the author‚ appeared in 1997. In Lewis’s view‚ the1919 Fifth-Avenue parade celebrating the return to Harlem from World War I of the famed 369th Regiment of the New York National Guard signaled the arrival of a black America ready for the phenomenon that became known as the Harlem Renaissance; and the

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that happened mainly in Harlem‚ New York throughout the 1920s to 1930s. It was known as the “New Negro Movement”. The years were between World War I and the Great Depression. This period of time was when the African- American middle class started to push for racial equality. Instead of using violence to handle their problems‚ the civil activists had artists and writers influence people through jazz music‚ fine art‚ and literature. Many jobs were available

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    The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was just the start of a new beginning for the African Americans in North America. Now the U.S. has a black president‚ in the 1800 you be killed for thinking of a black cloud becoming someone. And this all happened because of the Harlem renaissance. The Harlem renaissance was what happened when the Jim Crow laws were put in to movement. The African American population had to move the North because in the south they not find any good paying work but

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