USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920s was
A
Detroit
B
St. Lewis
C
Harlem
D
Chicago
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s and had Harlem in New York City as its symbolic capital.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most of these people lived in a neighborhood known as Harlem, which became the unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the 1920s, Harlem became the capital of black America, attracting black intellectuals and artists from across the country and the Caribbean.

Detailed explanation-4: -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).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.

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