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Harlem Renaissance

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1. Harlem Renaissance - Noun

2. Harlem Renaissance - Proper noun

Meaning

a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Source: WordNet

Examples

HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Literary Lights reading series celebrates Black History Month by honoring the Harlem Renaissance, with writers Hawona Sullivan-Janzen, Brenda Brown Bell, James Bernard Short, A. Rafael Johnson, Mary Moore Easter and Clarence White. Source: Internet

In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the " Harlem Renaissance ", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. Source: Internet

The inspiration for this book more than anything was Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, a satirical novel that basically shows what it was like to live through the Harlem Renaissance. Source: Internet

Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. Source: Internet

She was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt as well as with leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance and befriended and employed (who in her own right was a very successful author) as her chauffeur, secretary and confidante. Source: Internet

I am focusing this year on the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance. Source: Internet

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