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During the 1920's -1930's, a great flourishment was occurring on Arts, music (jazz) and greatly on literature. It gave blacks self confidence as slavery and segregation had taken away before.The need for economic and social equality brought a new sense of pride in being black. It was the combination of these developments, along with the settlement of blacks in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, the cultural center of the Renaissance movement that created the Harlem renaissance.
Black literary writers covered such issues from black life in the South and the North, racial identity, racial issues, and equality. These topics were a part of poetry, novels, and fiction. Some of the more popular writers tackling these issues included Jessie Redmon Fauset, Rudolf Fisher, Sterling A. Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer.
Harlem, New York was a magnet that attracted thousands of blacks from the south and the West Indies for not only better economic opportunities but educational opportunities as well.The Supreme Court had set the stage for scandalous discrimination in education for African Americans at the School Board of Richmond County, (G.A). But New York, unlike most states throughout the nation, by law prohibited segregated schools which increased relationships between whites and blacks. The promise of equal educational opportunities increased and enhanced a population that became a part of the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. - Leo G.
Black literary writers covered such issues from black life in the South and the North, racial identity, racial issues, and equality. These topics were a part of poetry, novels, and fiction. Some of the more popular writers tackling these issues included Jessie Redmon Fauset, Rudolf Fisher, Sterling A. Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer.
Harlem, New York was a magnet that attracted thousands of blacks from the south and the West Indies for not only better economic opportunities but educational opportunities as well.The Supreme Court had set the stage for scandalous discrimination in education for African Americans at the School Board of Richmond County, (G.A). But New York, unlike most states throughout the nation, by law prohibited segregated schools which increased relationships between whites and blacks. The promise of equal educational opportunities increased and enhanced a population that became a part of the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. - Leo G.