Hopes For The Future The Harlem Renaissance was a movement for black American artists in Harlem, a neighborhood in NYC. artists of color showcased their work not just in Harlem, but all over NYC. Larger, more popular artists like James Weldon Johnson helped shine light on the smaller, less known artists. Many of the pisces in The Harlem Renaissance showcased an important message and purpose throughout all the pisces in The Harlem Renaissance. The pieces in The Harlem Renaissance show the power of dreams and how they can bring a sense of purpose. For example, the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson is about the challenges Black Americans have gone through and the challenges they still have. But it's also a song that is empowering to many people because it also shows a sense of hope and truth by showing how far Black Americans have come. In the song it says “Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.” This is showing a sense of the hard past and how far we have come but we still …show more content…
Johnson. The piece is about how Black Americans moved to Harlem and other northern cities from the south to live a better life. In the painting it shows a new family in Harlem from the south, now able to have freedom to do what they like. Many people that moved to northern cities were hoping and dreaming of having a similar lifestyle to the people in the painting, being able to go out and dress up fancy and have a fun night. This shows that many people dreamed of moving and escaping to northern cities like Harlem. This started The Great Migration, where African Americans moved from the south to northern cities to have a better