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A 3 page research paper/essay that offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a period of black artistic creativity in New York City in the 1920s and 30s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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other hand, some scholars indicate a longer period for the Harlem Renaissance, marking the period as having occurred between 1920 and 1935 ("Songs of the soul" SR1). However, one dates
the Harlem Renaissance, it was an extraordinary period in African American history, as it was a period during which black artists were drawn to Harlem like moths to a flame.
The reason that this period has been dubbed a "Renaissance is because it introduced new ideas into American culture. In general, any historical period that introduces radical new ideas and
also encompasses a flowering of artistic talent and creation is generally dubbed a "renaissance." New ideas and incredible creativity characterized this era. Black veterans were returning from World War I
and asking why, "after fighting for their country," African Americans should remain "subjected to segregation, prejudice and unfair treatment" in the country for which so many of them sacrificed their
lives (Robinson 14). Also, Harlem became home to virtually every black intellectual, writer, artist and/or musician in the country. Harlem is a community located within New York City in
the northern section of the borough of Manhattan ("Songs of the soul" SR1). It is "bounded roughly by 110th Street on the south, 155th Street on the north, Madison Avenue
on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, musicians and artists" were drawn to Harlem
("Songs of the soul" SR1). Unlike the areas of the country where black citizens felt stifled and confined by convention that demanded their subordination, in Harlem, which was an African
American neighborhood by the 1920s, black artists felt "free to express themselves, to create, to fully tell the story" of their experience with "words, pictures, paintings, and...music" ("Songs of the
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