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Harlem Renaissance

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Harlem Renaissance term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914-18), many who came to New York settled in Harlem, as did a good number of black New Yorkers moved from other areas of the city. Meanwhile, Southern black musicians brought jazz with them to the North and to Harlem. The area soon became a sophisticated literary and artistic center. A number of periodicals were influential... Read more
Harlem Renaissance
HARLEM RENAISSANCE HARLEM RENAISSANCE HIGH SPOTS 1920 Brownie's Book — first issue of...125th Street in Upper Manhattan that gave its name to the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem nightlife attracted white audiences, and black culture... Read more
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance. Known also as the Negro Renaissance...demoralized urban black masses, the Harlem Renaissance represented the educated, middle...and other writers helped define the Harlem Renaissance. So, too, did musicians, artists... Read more

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