THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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An outpouring of literary and artistic work from blacks during the 1920s.
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A brief time when blacks in Harlem had equal social rights to whites during the 1920s.
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The name given to the time period when Harlem was growing larger and creating more black institutions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlem Renaissance was an outpouring of prominent Black American art, poetry, theater, and music in the 1920s and 1930s. While all components of the Harlem Renaissance contributed to the cultural movement, its visual arts output played a profound role in twentieth century American Black culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic flowering of the “New Negro” movement as its participants celebrated their African heritage and embraced self-expression, rejecting long-standing-and often degrading-stereotypes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Harlem Renaissance brought along a new creative energy for African American literature. This literary cultural movement was to reject the traditional American standards of writing and discover and utilize their own style of writing to signify their cultural identity.
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.