The Harlem Renaissance And The Civil Rights Movement

Between the 1920s to the mid 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. For the first time African American lives were seizing their first chance as a group to express themselves and get a positive response. Harlem, New York was the center of this dramatic cultural change, African Americans transformed social views and began to have more pride in their race, this age produced, visual arts, writer and new music such as jazz. This is one of the most influential movements in African American history. The Harlem Renaissance was also a time to break free of Victorian moral values, this movement laid all the ground work for a new found consciousness of black lives. It is important to keep in mind that the movement was not restricted to Harlem, Harlem however did attract and produce the most remarkable, intellectual artists, writers, and musicians of this time, such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Zora Neale Hurston.

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The civil rights movement, popular music and a sense of wanting complete equality and freedom, can all thank the Harlem Renaissance for this new found power. The Harlem Renaissance later went on to inspire the massive civil rights movement. Whites were desperately trying to keep blacks below them in the social change, but with all these new found artists and inspiration, there was no way the black community was going to back down. The Harlem Renaissance showed the African American Community that it was okay to express themselves, to fight back, It helped them realize that they were deserving and were just as good as any white person. African American culture is built up with many layers, and without the layer of the Harlem Renaissance, we would not have the same freedom and equality we have