Themes in American History

The Harlem Renaissance or the “New Negro Movement”, as it was called at the time. During this period there was a rise of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North in the early 1900s, many came to New York and settled in Harlem, as well as other black New Yorkers moved from other areas of the city. Meanwhile, Southern black musicians brought Jazz with them to the North and to Harlem. The area soon became a sophisticated literary and artistic center. A number of periodicals were influential in creating this movement, particularly the magazines Crisis, which was published by W. E. B. Du bois who urged racial pride among African Americans.

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