The Harlem Renaissance
After the first world war, African Americans thought they would experience what they called their "second empancipation". Hoping to escape meaningless jobs such as share cropping and tenant farming, three out of every four African American migrated North to cities such as Detriot, Chicago, Clevland, and New York. During the 1920's and 1930's. A culture that had long exsisted, revolutionized in Harlem, New York. With the Harlem Renaissance came the flourishment of black music, literature, art, and dialect. The distinct culture the Harlem Renaissance had birthed, caused a reaction that sought to further seperate African Americans from the rest of the nation, however this period also helped to empower, unite, and reform the way African-Americans saw themselves in the nation by producing effective organizations that still exsist today.
Harlem is vicious
Modernism. BangClash.
Vicious the way it's made,
Can you stand such beauty.
So violent and transforming. - Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Modernism. BangClash.
Vicious the way it's made,
Can you stand such beauty.
So violent and transforming. - Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Jebbeh Kiawoin and Jada Ingram
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