Harlem Renaissance
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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The renaissance made a new movement called the "new negro movement" which occurred in the 20th century. In some ways it favored the civil rights movement of the late 1940's and 1950's. Before world war 1 black painters and sculptors had ratel made things of the African American culture. But by the 1920's they had started developing African American traditions. Meta Warrick Fuller had made a sculptured and black women wrapped like a mummy from the waist down and the upper part of the body was going upward like she was getting revived. Aaron Douglas stopped doing landscape drawings and went to New York to study under Winold Reiss. Aaron soon made his own geographical way of drawing blacks. He silhouetted known black characters.Soon it spread through New York and west.
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The "new negro movement" was a big time for African American writers. During this time writers got really creative in writing. In upper Manhattan it gained national force when Charles Spugeon Johnson encouraged a lot of writers to migrate to upper manhattan. Among the famous writer Johnson were others. Langston Hughes,Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson,and Zora Neal Hurston were all big writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Countee Cullen was more into writing poetry. Countee came to resist that his racial background determined his poetic inheritance. Countee Cullen said that poetic heritage belonged to him has much has it belonged to any other white American his age.
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In the 1920's music for the black culture was expressed through Jazz. Jazz first emerged in the early 1900's in New Orlands and then spread to Chicago,New York city,and other places. The 1920's was known has the Jazz age because Jazz soon started flourishing and gained wide spread. Jazz was relaxed and "loose" morals of the time. Among the famous were Louis Armstrong,Bessie Smith,and Duke Ellington.
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