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The Harlem Renaissance

In the 1920s and early 1930s, there was an African American cultural movement 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......

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