USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the Black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement.

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: -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-4: -The History of the Harlem Renaissance While the movement emerged gradually, many historians mark its onset as 1918-two years after the start of the Great Migration. This phenomenon saw a mass exodus of over 6 million African Americans fleeing the segregated South to urbanized areas across the country.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.