Harlem Renaissance Research Paper

The Race to African American Success during The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great change for African-American history. “As result of World War I and the Great Migration, millions of African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North.”(The Harlem Renaissance, pg. 354) They believe that the urban North would provide them with a superior life for their children, education, and jobs. The north also offer economic opportunity, social advancement, and greater political rights. The south couldn’t compare to the north with their low-paying rural jobs, barred from decent schools, facing life of discrimination, and to be safe from harm. The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to express their input on what it was like to be an black men or women in America. “The Harlem Renaissance was a significant movement during the 1920s where blacks came together and created art and literature unique to their race, influencing thousands of blacks to stand up together in a white-dominant culture.” The Harlem Renaissance was an era of a great fight still yet to be won by African American, they develop leadership, they express the African Americans struggle by the tones that they played in their music and instruments, and the poem & art express African Americans unity together as one because to able …show more content…
F. Scott called the 1920’s the “Jazz age.” Jazz is a musical form based on improvisation. Jazz was made into three different forms of music African American blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music. Louis Armstrong have a major part with the jazz influenced. Mr. Armstrong was a unofficial ambassador of Jazz. He encourage and influences others to play jazz. One of Duke Ellington famous songs was about the moans cries, and the echoes of Africa. Jazz was an expression of African American