Harlem Renaissance Art is Great Art

The Harlem Renaissance is famous for
great artists
great music
great literature

I laughed so much when I discovered Langston Hughes book "The Best of Simple"
and also loved his poems.
I enjoyed Countee Cullens poems, when I found them in high school.
I didn't  know anything about the Harlem Renaissance back then, I liked them because they were good.
These works are not famous because their authors are black, but because they are great literature.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of "The Great Gatsby"
named the years between WW1 and WW2
The Jazz Age
because the whole world was in love with Jazz

Jazz players like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were so beloved that it caused the United States
 to think hard about questions like:
"How can you love the music and be afraid of the great artists who play it?"