THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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He composed music based on African American motifs
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He led a movement to return to Africa
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He wrote plays about the African-American experience
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He wrote about the struggle for African-American identity
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contributing factors leading to the Harlem Renaissance were the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities, which concentrated ambitious people in places where they could encourage each other, and the First World War, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.
Detailed explanation-3: -Writers of the Harlem Renaissance created a wide range of literary works from poetry to plays to prose, and to novels. The main themes of the writing were about racial identity, equality, black life in the South and North, and other racial issues.