African Americans did what the whites told them to do. They didn't have their own culture. They told the blacks to do what they were told and everything would be ok. They had their own abilities but could not express them because they weren't allowed to. The blacks then began to change their ways and they migrated to “The Promise Land.” In “The Promised Land” African Americans were able to pursue their dreams. They would become musicians, writers, poets, etc. When the African Americans migrated North they created a new social and cultural landscape. This was called The Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance affected future generations of black writers, but it was largely ignored by the literary establishment after it waned in the 1930s
