USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Harlem Renaissance happened where?
A
Fort Worth
B
New York City
C
Paris
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: -Contents. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chicago Black Renaissance is the name given to the surge of artistic expression, community organizing, and social activity in Chicago’s African-American community during the 1930s through the 1950s, and which figured prominently in the years leading to the modern Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first stirrings of the Chicago renaissance were felt after the World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893, an event that attracted young Middle Western writers to the city. The Little Room, a literary group that included both artists and patrons of the arts, encouraged literary activity.

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