1890 Between 1890 and 1920, about two million African Americans migrate from the rural southern states to the northern cities, where they hope to find better opportunities and less discrimination. 1910 The National Association for the Advancement of...

In the early part of the twentieth century, the United States was a country dominated by racism and racial segregation; for the most part, white and black people lived separate lives. Harlem was the center of New York's (and perhaps the whole...

Although many different kinds of artistic expression flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, the period is probably most famous for its literature. For many people, the first names that come to mind when considering the Harlem Renaissance are those...

It seems that nobody can agree on the exact moment when the Harlem Renaissance began. Maybe that's because quite a few important things were happening at around the same time. Some historians claim that the return of the 369th Infantry Regiment...

The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and The New Negro Movement) refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro...

On Saturday nights in summer, hundreds of fingers pound out mesmerizing rhythms on African drums _ a ritual repeated for decades in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park.This year, the drums have a counterpoint: the complaints of "new Harlemites.""African drumming is wonderful for the first four hours,...

In his introduction, editor Miles Marshall Lewis, author, hip hop chronicler, and Bronx native, remarks that the creation of Bronx Biannual, “the journal of urbane urban literature” follows in the footsteps of prior journals linked to cultural movements including Fire!!, published during the Harlem Renaissance,...

August Wilson’s extraordinary first play, Jitney (1982), born in the chains of slavery and the necessity of memory, was a tragedy of small and profound lives lived out in good humor and mortal struggle and amazing grace, as if the fragility of life were a...

When the Broadway theater season dies down in the summer, cabaret stars in see-through negligees and hot pink thongs take the stage at Dixon Place in downtown Manhattan. The nonprofit theater company's annual HOT! Festival, which runs through August, also...

In the following excerpt from her book-length study of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Perry notes the Dostoevskian tone of West's short stories and her effective portrayal of the conflicts inherent in black middle-class life.

Explores the relevance of the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights movement. Debates whether or not music, literature, and intellectuals resulting from the Harlem Renaissance helped demonstrate to whites the importance of black culture.

This essay deals with Marcus Garvey, a Jamaica native who came to America to spread his gospel of racial equality for the black people.  This essay connects Garvey with the period called the Harlem Renaissance that took place in the 20th century.

Provides an analysis of the African American oral tradition, as evidenced through Langston Hughes and other members of the Harlem Renaissance.