Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a time period between the 1920s and the 1930s. It was a literary, artistic, and musical revival of African American culture. The Renaissance was spawned from the almost 750,000 Africans who migrated from the South to the North in search of political freedom. The books and music in the Harlem Renaissance reflect the struggle that the African Americans went though to get to where they were then. Some great literary figures that came out of the Harlem Renaissance were Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Wallace Thurman, Rudolf Fisher, and Countee Cullen. Some influential artists of the time were William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Sargent Claude Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibald Motley. Among the many great musicians of the time were Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, and Billie Holiday.