This image shows how African Americans expressed their culture. They are people too and they have feelings, racism is not the way to go. They stick together for survival and free rights.
This piece of art describes the Harlem Remaissance by shpwing how this time period was an African literary and art movement. The beautiful water colors, and expressing African American culture.
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance helped give a new vocabulary and dynamic to race relations in the United States. African Americans demanded a better future. They would have a better life if the migrated here. Life in the factories were better. Pay and work were better in the auto plants in Detroit and the steel mills in Pittsburgh. In places such as New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, African Americans had political voice and it was growing rapidly. When they went north they were forced to live in bad housing and work for the lowest paying jobs. Harlem in New York became was the point that hundreds of thousands African Americans settled. Almost 200,000. Marcus Garvey came up in the 1920 as the new African American leader he was also the most influential leader of black nationasan. He established the UNIA.
The term “New Negro” became part if the American Vocabulary. It made a radical break from the past. African Americans would no longer be involved in the old ways of exploitation and discrimination. Jean Toomer's Cane set the bar for Harlem. Cane was a collection of short stories, poems, and sketches. It showed African American folk and culture in all its richness. Tommer had someone else joined forces with him. Claude McKay was an immigrant from Jamaica. He was the most militant of the writers. In the poems and novels he wrote he wrote about ordinary African Americans struggling through hard times and bad economy. There was one more person, Langston Hughes. He was the most powerful voice at the time.