The Great Migration Of African Americans In The 1920's

The Harlem Renaissance
Every racial group has an awakening. This new awakening brought music, dance, and art to New York. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening, of African Americans in the United States during the 1920’s. At the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, there was the great migration. The great migration was a migration of African Americans from southern states to Harlem. It all began “In the early 1900s, a few middle-class black families from another neighborhood known as Black Bohemia moved to Harlem, and other black families followed.” (History.com) then it preceded to a full-on movement of over three hundred thousand by the 1920s. The lifestyles of these newly relocated African Americans was not easy to deal with
But the men's clothes was a very different to the years before “Men's fashion became diverse with formal evening clothes, day clothes and sports and leisure wear”(American). men had suits on most of the day and even at night at the clubs like the cotton club. In the club dancing was the thing to do there where Foxtrot, Youth, Dances, Charleston, Collegiate, Swing, Waltz and lastly the Tango. All these dances were used in the clubs but the Charleston could be seen as the most commonly seen in images and footage of dances in clubs.
It was precipitated by a teenager’s theft of a penknife from a store and was fueled by economic hardship, racial injustice, and community mistrust of the police. It is sometimes considered the first modern American race riot.”(britannica) with segregation still present Harlem, had still not changed, even tho it was introduced to a beautiful culture. The time period was shrouded with discrimination and hatred to a people who were oppressed for so long. The race riots that spanned towards the end of the Harlem Renaissance it caused such hot spots as the Cotton Club to shut down for a long period of time, but in the race riots brought the Harlem Renaissance to an end.