HARLEM RENAISSANCE

HARLEM NEW YORK

• The Harlem Renaissance started started in Harlem, New York.
• It ended because of the Great Depression in the 1930's

1920's 1930's

• The Harlem Renaissance originally called the New Negro
• Movement that cultivated a new black culture in the
• 1920's and 1930's .
• This was also part of the Great Migration.

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• During this period harlem was a cultural center,
• drawing black writers, artistic, musicians,
• photographers, poets, and scholars.

THE BIRTH

• The birth of Jazz is considered a separate movement
• - according to Alain Lock, the Harlem Renaissance transformed
• " social dissimulation to race pride."
• The Renaissance had little impact on breaking down the rigid
• barriers of Jim Crow that separated the races.

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• Racial attitudes among young whites, it's
• greater impact was to reinforcer race
• pride among blacks.

WRITERS

• Writers during this period were Zora Neale Hurston,
• Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman,
• and Nella Larsen.
• Some of Jean Toomer poems, stories, and sketches about black
• life in rural Georgia and the urban North, were published in 1923.

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• The magazine Fire, had an impact on the literacy
• production because it represented the efforts of
• younger African American writers.

IMPACT

• Writers, actors, artist, and musicians glorified African American
• tradition, and at the same time created new ones.
• Harlem brought great work that had been lost or never produced
• The results were incredible.
• The impact of all African culture was equally strong. This was the

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• first time that white American could not look away.
• All African American voices could be heard through
• their work which was not possible before this period.

IMPACT AT THE END

• Ever though the Harlem Renaissance ended because
• of the Great Depression in 1930, it continues to be an
• inspiration to many. The Harlem Renaissance helped
• create equality for al people in history.

CITES...

• www.pbs.org/wnet/Jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html
• www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html
• www.jcu.edu/harlem/literature/page_1.htm