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The Harlem Renaissance Mr. Bach Hudson High School United States History
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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.
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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.
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Art of Harlem
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Literature of Harlem
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Paul Robeson
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Josephine Baker
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Music of Harlem Jazz – completely American form of music defined by improvisation and creativity, not rules.
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