The Harlem Renaissance was a place where African American artists, writers and musicians gathered to inspire each other.
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement developed in the 1920s. Over time, it was known as the "New Black Movement," in honor of Alain Locke's 1925 anthology. The movement also included the new Afro-American cultural expressions across the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest of the United States affected by the Great (Afro-American) Migration, of which Harlem was the largest. Although centered in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, in addition, many black writers from African and Caribbean colonies living in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.
The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have arisen from about 1918 until the mid-1930s. Many of his ideas have lived for much longer. The peak of the movement was the "flowering of Black literature" with James Weldon Johnson, between 1924 (the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Black Life organized a party for black writers where many white editors were present) and 1929 (the year of fall of the stock market and the onset of the Great Depression).
