HARLEM RENAISSANCE

LOCATION

• The Location of the Harlem neighborhood of NYC, the Harlem Renaissance was an
• African American cultural movement during the 1920s and 1930s

PUBLISHERS

• The Harlem Renaissance was the first time period that publishers and critics they took African American literature
• seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large

MUSIC

• - Jazz and blues music became prominent in the bars and cabarets of Harlem
• And most of the music was for listing not dancing

WRITERS

• From the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s, about 16 black writers published over 50 volumes
• Of riddles and poetry and more creative things

EVRYONE

• Harlem Renaissance appealed to not only the African Americans
• But all the people in Harlem

EQUALS

• It was the one place where all races where equal

DANCES

• The 1921 production of SHUFFLE ALONG is sometimes credited with initiating the movement
• In some bars there was jazz bands like the blue that became famous for jazz music

WORK

• There was a lot of new work that open due to world war 1
• And more people had more jobs

EDUCATION

• For African Americans, education had always been perceived as the great leveler
• and in the 1920's and 1930's
• New York was a magnet that attracted thousands of blacks from the south and the West Indies
• For better economic opportunities

THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE

• The reason the renaissance ended was because of the Great Depression
• Ending the roaring 20s no one had jobs and lot of people head out west
• To seek jobs