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ancestorswatching:
It’s 2020, which means that the Harlem Renaissance, at the time known as the New Negro Movement, started approximately one hundred years ago. This is one of my favorite historical periods.
In the decades after slavery ended, life in the southern USA continued to be difficult for African Americans. Many chose to leave the sharecropping jobs in which white landowners were still exploiting their labor, and began to migrate north on huge numbers.
Literature, music, fashion, and art exploded in African American culture as a result of this move out of the stagnant South. Black owned businesses and publications as Black people used art to advocate for equality and show White Americans that they were human too- capable of producing beautiful novels, paintings, and music just as White people did.
Some famous authors who were active during this period include my favorite poet, Langston Hughes, as well as Zora Neale Huston and Claude McKay. Marcus Garvey was leading the Back to Africa movement and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to highlight the African Americans who had obtained college degrees and owned property. Josephine Baker and Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson were two of the most prominent entertainers of the day. Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Dandridge were just a few notable musicians. Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, and Lois Mailou Jones were visual artists who became well-known.
ancestorswatching:
It’s 2020, which means that the Harlem Renaissance, at the time known as the New Negro Movement, started approximately one hundred years ago. This is one of my favorite historical periods.
In the decades after slavery ended, life in the southern USA continued to be difficult for African Americans. Many chose to leave the sharecropping jobs in which white landowners were still exploiting their labor, and began to migrate north on huge numbers.
Literature, music, fashion, and art exploded in African American culture as a result of this move out of the stagnant South. Black owned businesses and publications as Black people used art to advocate for equality and show White Americans that they were human too- capable of producing beautiful novels, paintings, and music just as White people did.
Some famous authors who were active during this period include my favorite poet, Langston Hughes, as well as Zora Neale Huston and Claude McKay. Marcus Garvey was leading the Back to Africa movement and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to highlight the African Americans who had obtained college degrees and owned property. Josephine Baker and Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson were two of the most prominent entertainers of the day. Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Dandridge were just a few notable musicians. Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, and Lois Mailou Jones were visual artists who became well-known.
