Essays on The New Negro

Harlem Renaissance is described as “cultural flowering” as it instituted and consisted of the Negro American, West Indian, and the African. It brought together the blacks who were in search of better opportunities. Harlem was, not only in Manhattan, the largest Negro community with diverse...

Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1875, African Americans saw their modest gains in freedom reversed in the South where white Democrats regained power and made racism a definitive institution. There they created the Jim Crow laws that would see the South segregated for decades...

The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the New Negro Movement) occurred during the 1920s and 1930s and was centered in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. This was a time when African-Americans in Harlem began to achieve greater financial...

With racism still at liberty and economic opportunities limited, creative expression was one of the few avenues available to African Americans in the early twentieth century. Primarily literary, the Harlem Renaissance, according to Alain Locke, transformed “social disillusionment into race pride.” The Harlem Renaissance was...

During the first twenty years of the 20th century, after a wave of violence and injustice, a new cultural movement emerged in the African American community. An explosion of art and literature based on the rebirth of African American culture and the empowerment of the...