THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Harlem Renaissance
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Prohibition
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New York City Parade
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Stone Age
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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: -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-3: -She went to Paris for the first time in 1937. But African American artists had been going there since the 19th century, and by the 1920s were coming there in droves to escape the widespread racial discrimination in the United States and to experience freedom both as artists and individuals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most importantly, the Harlem Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.