Harlem Renaissance Research Paper

In its 20-year span--from 1917 to 1937--Harlem Renaissance writers created an authentic voice for African-Americans that showed their humanity and desire for equality in United States' society. Harlem was once described by Alain Locke as “ not merely the largest Negro community in the world, but the first concentration in history of so many diverse elements of Negro life.” Harlem (1920s) was richly populated with a growing number of growing African Americans who were genuine and had cultural uniqueness through their arts and literature. in fact, it was through them the movement came into existence. Most of their literature fixated on the lives of the blacks and what they had hoped to live for(ushistory 46e). The Harlem Renaissance was the …show more content…
Consecutively this movement can be well illustrated through a quote by Shakespeare, “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts,” This cultural transaction has won the hearts of many, including the white folks; which left an engraving in their hearts as well as, an impressions that the blacks were equally as good as whites. It was for the first time in the history of the U.S. that the whites had appreciated for what the black have done to change the era of the United States. The Renaissance was crucial because the movement impacted the black novelists, poets, painters, and playwrights; it brought upon the artistic traits to every African American living in …show more content…
African Americans underwent tortuous and atrocious ways of slavery and the struggle for their privileges . At the end, the outcome wasn’t the same as many had anticipated.(ushistory 46e). In about 1890, 750,000 African Americans fled South, and migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of it’s prosperity. This Great Migration eventually relocated hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North; The Harlem, drew nearly 175,000 African Americans, turning the neighborhood into the largest district of black people in the world (infoplease, the birth of the Harlem Renaissance). Many discovered they had shared common experiences in their past and their uncertain present circumstances. Instead of floundering in self-pity, the recently eviction ignited an outburst of cultural pride. Indeed, The African American culture was reborn and gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance (ushistory 46e); to rephrase it, Harlem Renaissance gave birth to many poets, writers and artists.. Langston Hughes once quoted “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” . Every African American who lived in Harlem made this into a reality by seeking common experience of their past and building upon on