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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement (“The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties”), was a cultural movement of African Americans that took place during the late 1920s and early 1930s. During the movement there were advances of African American literature, music, art, theatre, and politics. Because of the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of blacks moved from the agricultural southern United States to the more industrialized northern United States where New York was a particular “hot spot” for them (“Harlem Renaissance”). Harlem, New York was the center of the renaissance and was even considered to be the “Mecca of the New Negro” (Wintz 27). Aaron Douglas, a painter of the renaissance, claimed that “New York was ‘where the action was’ as far as Negro artists were concerned.” (“The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties”). The publication of “Nigger Heaven” by Carl Van Vechten in 1926 was a......


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