Harlem Renaissance Flourishes

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.^¹ At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by philosopher Alain Locke, who is regarded as the "dean" of the Harlem Renaissance.^¹ The movement also included new African-American cultural expression across other urban areas in the Northeastern United States and the Midwestern United States.^¹ It was prompted by a renewed militancy in the general struggle for civil rights, combined with the Great Migration of African-American workers fleeing the racist conditions of the Jim Crow Deep South.^¹ Harlem was the final destination of the largest number of those who migrated north, and had also seen significant Black immigration from British, French and other colonies in the Caribbean.^¹