The Harlem Renaissance In The 1930's

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The Harlem Renaissance took place in the 1920’s and the 1930’s. It all started because the African-American race migrated, or as you can say relocated from the South to the North. We call this the great migration today, but the original name was the “ The New Negro Movement, New Negro Renaissance, The Negro Renaissance, the Jazz Age, or the Harlem Renaissance.” Almost 75,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North. They Gave the Harlem Renaissance that name because of the Artistic, Cultural, and Social that happened between the end of the World War I. Many of the drawing blacks, poets, artists, photographers, musicians, and scholars fled from the south to harlem hoping/ finding A place where they can freely express their hard work and talents.
The artists who accomplished their goals are Langston Hughes,Claude McKay , Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer,Walter White and James Weldon Johnson ETC... Those people inspired other black to step up and fight for the rights to try to achieve their dreams as well as the names listed above. They encouraged …show more content…

It may have seen easy, but this task was way more complex than it looked. Racism was still alive, very alive and it was hard for the African-Americans to step up and show their unknown talents to the world. African-Americans who owned their own magazines and newspapers began to thrive, releasing African Americans from the constricting influences of mainstream white society. Some of the Magazine and Newspapers owners are: Charles S. Johnson's Opportunity magazine became the leading voice of black culture, and W.E.B. DuBois's journal, The Crisis, with Jessie Redmon Fauset as its literary editor, launched the literary careers of such writers as Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Countee