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 was ____
A
a cultural movement made up of African American artists, writers, musicians and performers from Harlem.
B
a cultural movement made up of Africans, Indonesians and white Americans.
C
a time when the country was going through the Great Depression.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Read more about this historic New York neighborhood.

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: -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-4: -Impact of the Harlem Renaissance 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.

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