Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s [1]
Harlem Renaissance | Definition, Artists, Writers, Poetry, Time Period . . . The Harlem Renaissance was an arts movement of the early 20th century that sought to challenge and reconceptualize white stereotypes of African Americans that had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other
A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance Between the end of World War I and the mid-1930s, African Americans produced one of the most significant eras of cultural expression in the nation’s history—the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance - National Gallery of Art The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression and lead up to World War II (the 1930s)
The Harlem Renaissance - Poetry Foundation The origins of the Harlem Renaissance lie in the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when hundreds of thousands of black people migrated from the South into dense urban areas that offered relatively more economic opportunities and cultural capital
Harlem Renaissance: History, Definition and Accomplishments The Harlem Renaissance is defined as an era (1910s to 1930s), as well as a movement, that was characterized by explosive growth of distinctive ideas and artworks among African American communities, particularly communities in the North
Harlem Renaissance Literature The Harlem Renaissance was the most important literary and artistic movement in African American history Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the 1920s and 1930s, it brought Black writers, poets, musicians, and artists into the national spotlight for the first time