Harlem+Renaissance

=Harlem Renaissance =

The Harlem Renaissance was the result of World War I and the Great Migration. The war provided many African Americans with jobs, the ones that had been abandoned by the people fighting in the war, and the jobs that provided people in the war with the things that they needed (weapons, clothes, etc.). The Great Migration was the movement of about 2 million African Americans from the south, to other parts of the country. Many of them went to the north, Harlem, New York being one of the more popular destinations. The Harlem Renaissance started in the 1920's and ended in the 1930's with the start of the Great Depression. The Harlem Renaissance brought forth a lot of new art, including visual, musical, and written. Some visual artists from the era were Archibald J. Motley, Aaron Douglas, Richmond Barthe, and James Lesesne Wells. Langston Hughes was one of the most famous writers of the time. He wrote poems, novels, plays, and more. He was one of the first poets to write Jazz Poetry, which is poetry with a jazz-like rhythm. Some of his mo