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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1910s and 1920s. The movement gave birth to artists like Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. It also included innovations like the expansion of jazz music, which eventually took the country by storm and became the most popular music genre for decades.
The Harlem Renaissance was the natural progression of Black cultural thought and expression building up for 60 years since the Civil War. The Black community found itself at a number of crossroads as more Black people left the oppressive South and as the country modernized, especially leading up to and after the First World War. Some of these crossroads included the role Black people saw for themselves in American culture, how best to fight for and secure civil rights, relationships with the white community, and how to view America’s present, its past, and its future.
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Children’s Rhymes
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Cora Unashamed
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Dreams
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Harlem
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I look at the world
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Let America Be America Again
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Me and the Mule
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Mother to Son
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Mulatto
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Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
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Not Without Laughter
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Slave on the Block
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Thank You, M'am
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The Big Sea
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Theme for English B
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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The Ways of White Folks
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The Weary Blues
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Tired
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