Harlem Renaissance: Facts & Related Content
Facts
| Date | c. 1918 - 1937 |
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| Location | Harlem • New York • New York City • United States |
Did You Know?
- During the Great Migration over 175,000 African-Americans moved to Harlem.
- For a while, Harlem was seen as the center of African-American life in the U.S.
- The end of Prohibition in 1933 meant that white patrons no longer looked for the illegal alcohol and social scene of Harlem clubs, helping to end the Harlem Renaissance.
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Key People
Wallace Henry Thurman
American writer
Langston Hughes
American poet
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Dorothy West
American writer
James VanDerZee
American photographer
Rudolph Fisher
American writer
Alain Locke
American writer
Claude McKay
American writer
Aaron Douglas
American artist
James Weldon Johnson
American writer
Countee Cullen
American poet
Richard Nugent
American writer, artist and actor
Regina M. Anderson
American librarian and playwright
Jessie Redmon Fauset
American author
Nella Larsen
American author
Eric Walrond
Caribbean author
May Miller
American playwright and poet
Melvin Tolson
American poet
Arna Bontemps
American writer
Carl Van Vechten
American writer and photographer
Causes and Effects
Causes
- Growth in black populations in the North as a result of the early years of the Great Migration
- Popularity of Pan-Africanism among influential African American thinkers such as W.E.B. Du Bois
- Rising rates of literacy, particularly among Northern blacks
- The emergence of national organizations, such as the NAACP, dedicated to African American civil rights
- The vibrancy of black cultural life in Harlem
Effects
- The emergence of African American writers, such as Richard Wright, who called for greater social and political engagement
- Greater control by black artists over representations of black culture and experience
- Anticolonial and antiassimilationist movements such as Negritude
- Increased presence of black actors in American theatres
- Publication of black authors by major American publishers
