The Harlem Renaissance Mr. Bach Hudson High School United States History
Harlem Renaissance New York City’s Harlem neighborhood gets a huge population boom due to the Great Migration. Harlem will become the center of an African- American cultural re-birth.
Harlem Renaissance – Why Now? Blacks feel a sense of unity and pride in their own distinct neighborhood in Harlem away from white oppression. A number of white publishing companies started to agree to publish black literature and record black music. –White people as well as blacks became fans of the new black art styles.
Art of Harlem
Literature of Harlem
Paul Robeson
Josephine Baker
Music of Harlem Jazz – completely American form of music defined by improvisation and creativity, not rules.