Harlem Renaissance #1591

Caption from poster__       Harlem Renaissance        Harlem Renaissance 1920 -1940 Originally called the New Negro Movement. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1930s, and 1930s. Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination." With racism still rampant and economic opportunities scarce, creative expression was one of the few avenues available to African Americans in the early twentieth century. Chiefly literary the birth of jazz is generally considered a separate movement the Harlem Renaissance, according to Locke, transformed "social disillusionment to race pride. The timing of this coming of age was perfect. The years between World War I and the Great Depression were boom times for the United States, and jobs were plentiful in cities, especially in the No