Harlem Renaissance Research Paper
The Harlem Renaissance is the rebirth of African American culture. It happened during 1917-1935 in Harlem, New York. In 1914 only 50,000 Negroes lived in New York. By 1930, it increased to 200,000. The Great Migration is when Negroes had gone North to get away from their treatment in the South. In 1914-1970 over six million African Americans moved North. They left homes in the South because the economic opportunities were not good there. They made themselves known by creating a “new black urban culture that would exert enormous influence in the decades to come.” The Rebirth of African American culture involved musicians, artists, photographers, writers such as poets, novelists, activists and actors. They came especially to New York.
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Jazz music started in the Harlem Renaissance. Literature in the Harlem Renaissance produced many famous books such as Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Quicksand by Nella Larsen. Langston Hughes as one or the most famous people to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1st, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri to his parents James and Caroline (Carrie) Langston Hughes. Shortly after he was born his parents separated. He was raised by his grandmother. His grandfather, Lewis Sheridan Leary, fought for freedom with John Brown’s group. He was killed in a raid on Brown’s group. Hughes’s grandmother received Leary’s shawl that full of bullet holes and told Hughes what a great man his grandfather …show more content…
His first novel, Not Without Laughter, was published 1929. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in Crisis Magazine in 1920-1921. Hughes career spanned about forty-five years. He was influenced by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. During that time Hughes wrote two novels, sixteen books of poetry, three collections of short stories, four volumes of editorial and documentary fiction, twenty plays, twenty children’s poetry, Musicals and operas, three autobiographies, twelve radio and television scripts and twelve magazine
Jazz music started in the Harlem Renaissance. Literature in the Harlem Renaissance produced many famous books such as Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Quicksand by Nella Larsen. Langston Hughes as one or the most famous people to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1st, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri to his parents James and Caroline (Carrie) Langston Hughes. Shortly after he was born his parents separated. He was raised by his grandmother. His grandfather, Lewis Sheridan Leary, fought for freedom with John Brown’s group. He was killed in a raid on Brown’s group. Hughes’s grandmother received Leary’s shawl that full of bullet holes and told Hughes what a great man his grandfather …show more content…
His first novel, Not Without Laughter, was published 1929. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published in Crisis Magazine in 1920-1921. Hughes career spanned about forty-five years. He was influenced by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. During that time Hughes wrote two novels, sixteen books of poetry, three collections of short stories, four volumes of editorial and documentary fiction, twenty plays, twenty children’s poetry, Musicals and operas, three autobiographies, twelve radio and television scripts and twelve magazine