A Short Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance

You will remember the US Civil War ended in 1865,
and recently freed Black Americans looked for better opportunities,
to put it mildly.

In The Great Migration
thousands of Black Americans from
the Rural South moved to the Urban North
starting as early as the 1890s.

In addition to the devastation caused by the US Civil War
and Union General Sherman's devastating March to the Sea,
this great migration was accelerated by the Boll Weevil Blight
which ruined cotton crops in the 1890s, further depressing the economy of the Southern States.

Are you looking all this up?

The greatest influx of immigrants to the North was during the years 1910 to 1930
with many arriving in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York City.
Renovation projects in metropolitan New York pushed additional residents to Harlem.

(See?  Everything is part of some kind of domino effect.  That's why the subject of history is so complex.)

Anyway, this environment brought these great minds together and we still benefit from the tremendous artistic output by Black writers, poets and musicians
The decade of the 1920's  was originally referred to as The New Negro Movement, but we now call it
The Harlem Renaissance