THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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The author wanted the reader to have background information about The Harlem Renaissance
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The author wanted to show the reader why African-Americans wanted to have better lives
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The author wanted to ensure the reader understood the mindset of African-Americans going into The Harlem Renaissance
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The author wanted the reader to understand the viewpoints of the African-Americans who moved to the north
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -These forces converged to help create the “New Negro Movement” of the 1920s, which promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics. Evoking the “New Negro, ” the NAACP lobbied aggressively for the passage of a federal law that would prohibit lynching.