Frontiers of Law, Political Science and Art

Harlem Renaissance: An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music.

Abstract


Azahari A. H.

The age was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, the big Apple City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it absolutely was called the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas within the Northeast and Midwest u. s. full of a renewed militancy within the general struggle for civil rights for African-Americans that occurred within the wake of civil rights struggles within the then-stillsegregated US soldiers in WWI and which was further inspired by the NAACP, the Garveyite movement.

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